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pdfToolbox Desktop gives you the choice: create your own preflight rules for PDF quality control or rely on the predefined profiles that come with the software. Many of these are based on international standards such as the ISO PDF/X standard or the Ghent Workgroup specifications. The preflight engine in pdfToolbox is synonymous with quality and power. The fact that it has been licensed by Adobe for use in Acrobat Pro is testament to this.

pdfToolbox Desktop also offers full support for the Proof of Preflight standard developed by the Ghent Workgroup. After the preflight check, Proof of Preflight stores additional metadata in your PDF documents and protects them with a digital signature. This makes it easy to demonstrate that the file you supplied was correct, or that the file was not accidentally modified somewhere in your workflow.

For PDF files that fail the quality control, pdfToolbox Desktop offers unique visualizer technology. This gives a visual indication of the severity of issues such as ink coverage exceedances, low-resolution images, incorrect colour separations and small text or line art. The errors are indicated using colour coding on top of the relevant PDF document. This lets you judge how serious they are and whether you can correct them yourself or will need to ask the customer to supply a new PDF.

For PDF corrections, pdfToolbox Desktop offers not only the power of its preflight profiles but also the extremely user-friendly Switchboard. The Switchboard provides dozens of ready-to-use Switchboard actions that can resolve many of the common problems found in today's PDF files. Think for example of transparency flattening, conversion to outlines, adding printer's marks and converting colours, to name just a few of the possibilities.

Do you have multiple versions of a PDF file and want to see all the differences between them? Or do you want to repair a PDF file by embedding a font, for instance, but want to be sure this will not cause any unwanted changes in the PDF? No worries, pdfToolbox Desktop and its visual comparison functionality come to the rescue!