Callas bundles PDF pre-flighting tools

Callas Software has boxed up its PDF pre-flighting tools into a single suite called pdfToolbox.

The package includes pdfCorrect, pdfColorConvert and pdfInspektor (with the server edition) and are no longer available separately, as well as pdfLayerMaker.

The software costs £374 for Mac and PC users and £3,119 for the server edition on Mac, PC and Unix platforms.

The server edition can be used with Gradual Switch, a software component that can hook into third-party applications for increased automation.

The suite uses Device Link Profiles as versions of ICC colour profiles that can be saved and used as required, providing sets of transformations from source to destination colour spaces.

There are 15 such profiles included in the software.

Ivor Dixon, managing director at UK distributor Positive Focus, said: "Users often required two or more individual products to perform the tasks needed in their workflow, so by consolidating the individual products into pdfToolbox, and with the price reductions made at the same time, we now have a highly competitive solution that is remarkably easy to use, yet powerful and controllable."