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New Features pdfaPilot Desktop 13

Desktop:

• Swithboard: New functionality "Replace text" in group "Text"
• Protected Profiles: Allows making content of a Profile or Process plan inaccessible and to limit the use to certain serial numbers
• Fast Fix: New "Fast fix" for single Fixups and Quick Fixes in Desktop, which will limit the extent of post-processing analysis of the resulting PDF
• Fixup settings: New "Duplicate" button for settings
• Test mode:Preview for extracted text for Quick Fix "Search and replace text" and "Search and replace text for VDP" in Process plan context
• Test mode:New "Short overview (faster)" mode, which will limit the extent of post-processing analysis of the resulting PDF
• Test mode:Optional "Preflight only pages" to limit processing to the defined page range
• JavaScript Variables editorSupport for using VS Code as external editor
• JavaScript Variables editorExtended functionality to evaluate the results in context with e.g. a previous step in a Process plan
• JavaScript Variables editor Auto complete for JavaScript objects, Variables, Quick Check parameters and other usability improvements
• Profile window:"Search Libraries" has been replaced with "Import from Library", which offers more functionalities

Process plans:

• Process plan steps Checks, Fixups, Profiles: Introduced a page selector input field per step
• "Fast VDP mode" checkbox for Process Plans: Form XObject will be analyzed and processed only once, even if used multiple times within the PDF (designed especially for variable and transactional PDF files)
• Checks: The severity of a hit can now be set
• Compare PDF: reports will only be created if differences were found
• Processing: Optimized application of running a generic post check (e.g. will not happen in Process plans with just an Action)
• Preliminary process plans can be saved
• Extended settings for JSON reports

New or enhanced predefined Profiles:

• PDF/UA-1 validation: Improved reporting for un-tagged PDFs
• PDF/A-4... validation: Added "CMYK source profile identical with blend color space profile"
• PDF/A-4... conversion: Added "Remove all alternate images" and "Discard image interpolation flag" Fixups

Extended and enhanced Fixups:

• Add white background: New Option "Existing transparent page content overlaps opaquely" which puts the existing page content into an isolated group XObject
• Set transparency blend color space: New options to limit to certain color spaces
• Insert page: New page content filter to limit the type of objects to be duplicated
• Remove page objects outside: Changed object recognition to Sifter technology for better analysis

New Properties:

• CMYK object redefined to ICCbased CMYK via its transparency group
• Create a hit (or not): Allows to set to create a hit including a trigger value based on a previously determined result (e.g. from a Quick Check or JavaScript-Variable)
• Determine JPEG quality factor

Quick Fix:

• Search and replace text
• Search and replace text for VDP (mail merge)

Reports:

• HTML-template based Reports: Completely redesigned and restructured default template, various additional views can be ordered via the manifest.xml
• New report format JSON
• XML report: Extended sequence step information for process plans

General:

• Log Profile execution: Lists type of step and logging path into process.log
• XML & JSON reports with an appropriate message will now also be generated for encrypted or invalid PDFs
• Generic syntax checks now have a custom ID (e.g. in reports or app.doc.results)
• Performance optimization initialization for PDF files with huge numbers of pages