Prinect PDF Toolbox 2019 What S New: Equipment

Prinect Product
Equipment
Prinect 
PDF Toolbox 2019
What´s new
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Before you start ...

About This Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Structure of this Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

What you should already know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Typographical conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Important Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
New Features in Prinect PDF Toolbox 2019
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Show Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
PDF Assistant: Geometry Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Object Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Color Editor: Spot colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Trap Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Barcode & VDP Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Versioning Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Assemble Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Prinect Product – User’s Guide 3

About This Documentation

The present documentation describes the new features of the software Prinect Product 2019 as com-
pared to Prinect Product 2018. We will show you the advantages of the new features in practical
examples or error descriptions.
Structure of this Documentation

The present documentation describes the changes made to the following components:
• General Information
• Show Effects
• PDF Assistant: Geometry Control:
• Color Editor: Spot colors
• Trap Editor
• Barcode & VDP Editor
• Versioning Assistant
• Assemble Pages
What you should already know

We assume that you are familiar with the Windows® and Mac OS X® operating systems that are sup-
ported by this application.
We also assume that you have a basic knowledge of how to operate Acrobat and Prinect PDF Toolbox.

Typographical conventions
The following typographical conventions are used in this documentation:
• References to sections are blue (on the screen) and underlined.
Example: See section "Important Information", page 6.
• Quotes are used to indicate menus, folders, names of functions, hardware conditions, switch
settings, system messages, etc.
Example: Set the switch to "off".
• Menus, functions and sub-functions are separated by ">".
Example: Select "File > Open...".
• A plus sign is used to indicate that several keys have to be pressed at the same time.
Example: Press Alt+A.
Important Information
Important information in the text is marked by symbols that are used as follows:
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Note/Motivation: Contains important general or advanced information about a specific
topic or describes, for example, why a specific check was implemented.
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New: Contains information that is new in comparison to older Prinect Software versions.
New: Identifies the new features in a screenshot.
Note: This new feature was also implemented in the Prinect Workflow.
6 Version 2019
System Requirements
Like PDF Toolbox 2018, Prinect PDF Toolbox 2019 supports Acrobat 2018, 10, 11 and Acrobat DC 2015
and 2017 on Macintosh and Windows PCs. Acrobat 9 is no longer supported.
General Information
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New: Minor optical UI changes as compared to the previous version
The fonts used differ slightly because a higher version of the development tool for graphic UIs
(wxWidgets) was used. 
The Toolbox is identified with a separate icon from the tool box (->Tools)
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New: One plug-in for all Acrobat versions on the Mac
A combined plug-in (32-bit and 64-bit) for all Acrobat versions is installed on the Mac.

Show Effects
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New tool to visualize coating effects
Motivation: With the new "Show Effects" tool you can simulate coating effects. Foil, varnish, metallic
colors, embossing or Braille, but also the printing material can be visualized in 3D in the PDF.
(For operation, see the video)
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Note: To use "Show Effects", you need a license for the Coating Editor. 
Restriction: You cannot run the tool in Remote Desktop.
8 Version 2019
Click the icon to open the tool 

or choose ->Add-Ins ->Prinect 2019 -> Show Effects.
After Show Effects starts, a 3D view of the current page of the PDF document displays in the preview.
.

User Interface:
If the PDF document has several pages, you can change between the pages with the buttons [1]. Use
these buttons [2] to rotate, move and scale up the view.
In the table [3] on the left, you can see which effects are assigned to the colors in the document. To
change this assignment, mark a color and set the effect you want [4].
You can also select the material [5] on which the PDF will be printed from a predefined catalog.
In the "Properties" tab [6] you can create new colors or foils for the following effects: Choose the follow-
ing colors...:
• "Special Ink > Neon Color"
• ·"Foil -> "Color foil"
• ·"Background > "Cold foil colored"
10 Version 2019
then click "New" and specify the desired color values for the new color:
If you wish to save the visualization, you can export the current preview as a 3D PDF. To do this, click
the button [7] and select where the file will be stored. The file is a 3D PDF that you can open with
Adobe Acrobat.
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Hint on how to open the 3D PDF: As 3-D is dynamic in nature, working with it can lead to
security issues. For this reason, the playback of 3D content in PDF files is disabled by
default. (Source: Adobe)
When you open a PDF file containing 3D content, a yellow bar with the following message will appear
above the document window:
"3D content has been disabled. Enable this feature if you trust this document."
Click "Options" and select the option you want:
• Trust this document one time only
• Trust this document always

To permanently enable 3D content:
Go to Edit > Preferences > 3D & Multimedia and check the Enable playing of 3D content option.

You can then rotate the exported PDF in Acrobat:
For more information about how to set up 3D views in PDF files in Adobe Acrobat, refer to the
Acrobat Online Help (https://helpx.adobe.com/en/acrobat/using/setting-3d-views-pdfs.html)
12 Version 2019
PDF Assistant: Geometry Control

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New: New "Bleed" tab to add trim
In this tab, you can detect and add missing trim under visual control
.

Motivation: The new trim results are immediately visible. In this context, the BleedBox can be
included optionally, or you can add trim in the spine, regardless of the page trim.
14 Version 2019
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New: Adding empty pages to a PDF/VT
Motivation: If you wish to add empty pages to a PDF/VT, this must also apply to all records. Up to
now, this was not possible. You can now add an empty page to a PDF/VT with the context menu in
Geometry Control like with "normal" PDF files:
The page is accordingly added in all data records.

Example:
In a PDF/VT with two pages per data record, you want to add an empty page after the second page.
Add an empty page; as a result, all data records have 3 pages in total, with the empty page at the end:
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Object Editor
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New: Ungroup Text/Graphic
Motivation: Customers requested the ability to ungroup graphic. 

Example: You can ungroup text converted to graphic and move or colorize separate letters.

Color Editor: Spot colors

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New: Create, edit, and delete color tables in the MasterDataStorage (MDS)
Motivation: You found color recipes four your spot colors with the PDF Toolbox and want to use
these recipes everywhere in Prinect. Until now, you had to enter the color values in the Cockpit man-
ually. As of Toolbox version 2019, you can save color table changes directly to the MDS. You can edit
color tables, delete or enable tables, or change the search order. You can move a table to the top or
bottom of the Search Order table with a single button:
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This requires that you enabled the use of the Prinect Server beforehand:
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Note: There is a small risk that two users edit the same table on two separate PCs simulta-
neously and thus interfere with each other. This risk remains with the user.

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New: Improved test chart functions: You can choose to have full color names or color
recipes displayed as an option
Motivation: Even in PDF Toolbox 2018, you could print test charts for your custom color tables. As
an enhancement, you can now choose from different color naming conventions:
20 Version 2019
You can have the full color name with color recipe displayed, for example:

Trap Editor
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New: Special case transparency groups: Contents of transparency groups are trapped
Motivation: Transparency groups or objects of such groups were excluded from trapping in versions
before 2019 (and 2018.00.25). Trapping now takes place between elements in a transparency group,
but also between transparency groups or page elements underneath. This modification was also
included as an update to Version 2018 (18.00.25).
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Note: As a consequence, reprinting in Version 2019 with retrapping can lead to results that
differ from those obtained with Versions <18.00.25.
What is a transparency group?

Transparency groups are groups of objects (image, graphic, text, shading) whose interrelation is of
importance in case of a transparency. The Object Editor indicates if an object is part of a transparency
group.
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Example:
Version <2018.00.25/2019:
Version >18.00.25

Barcode & VDP Editor

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New: Automatic launching of the VDP Editor for PDF files with variable data
Motivation: The VDP Editor will start automatically if you open a PDF containing variable placehold-
ers in Acrobat with "Autostart" being enabled.
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Note: PDF with variable placeholders refers to a file containing the "Prinect VDP marks"
layer:
24 Version 2019
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New: Time placeholder: with optional seconds display
For dynamic placeholders, you can now choose a format including the display of seconds. 
Until now, you could only choose between 12 or 24 hours:
As result, the mark displays seconds:

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New: Adjustable line spacing
Motivation: For a long time, customers had requested to make the line spacing of multi-line texts
adjustable.
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Note: The expected line spacing value is a multiple of the font size.
26 Version 2019
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New: Placeholders are now permanently visible.
Motivation: In versions prior to 2019, the records preview was visible only in the "PDF/VT" tab; a
precise positioning of the placeholder in terms of color or size was difficult. Version 2019 now offers
the preview of any record in each of the tabs.

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New: Validation of selected symbol sizes.
Motivation: A test if barcodes or texts fit the intended box is performed by default. As of Version
2019, the intended symbol size is tested for compliance with the QR and DataMatrix codes. If not, an
error message appears
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New: Usage of variable data optional
Motivation: By enabling or disabling this optional listbox, the user can specify whether or not to dis-
play and use the CSV file containing variable data and respective placeholders in the VDP Editor.
The entries in the respective check boxes for placeholder marks are limited.
This prevents using placeholder marks of the CSV file inadvertently if production is to take place with-
out marks of a CSV file.
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New: Premiumadress offered by Deutsche Post is supported
Motivation: The Deutsche Post AG offers the digital "Premiumadress" address management service.
Premiumadress manages addresses digitally to prevent undeliverabilities due to relocation, etc. Pre-
miumadress is identified with a "P":
Deutsche Post AG supplies a CSV file that you can browse for containing placeholders that you can
add to the content of a datamatrix code. Choose "Hexadecimal 00..FF" as "Control Characters" to be
able to correctly read the data format of Deutsche Post AG. You can choose several encodings for gen-
eration of the CSV file containing the Premiumadress data by Post AG. To make things match, you
must choose "Hex 00..FF" as Control Characters. "Hex 00..FF" being the default is the only feasible
method.

These datamatrix codes require specific parameters for margins, module width, size and number of
bytes the user must set. PDF Toolbox 2019 provides a correct DataMatrix Code that is recognized by
the scanners of Deutsche Post AG.
30 Version 2019
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New: Placeholder of variable data on an imposed sheet
Motivation: Compliance with a customer request. Is is now possible to also place variable data
records on an imposed sheet. For example, you can mark four 1ups on a sheet with a unique index
and place marks anywhere on the 1ups of a sheet.
(see video)

You use the VDP Editor to place marks on one sheet, and the complete consecutive records will then
be generated automatically:
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Note: If the number of records is not dividable suitably, the replacement after the last
record restarts with the content of the first replacer.
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New: Copy & paste of text or barcode marks in the same document
Motivation: Customers requested the possibility of copying and pasting placeholder marks.
32 Version 2019
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New: Extensive changes for the Labelfire workflow:
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Note: If needed, these topics will be covered in detail in the course of a Labelfire training
course.
Check box "target System -> Labelfire" renamed to "iVDP Labelfire", and "PDF/VT" tab renamed to
"iVDP", if "iVDP Labelfire" has been chosen as the target system.
What is iVDP?
IVDP is the abbreviation of Industrial Variable Data Printing, a term introduced by Heidelberg.
In iVDP, variable objects are placed like in a PDF/VT. But in contrast to PDF/VT, only the variable
objects are placed and replaced in the Labelfire RIP later. You can check if the existing marks are
suited for iVDP and make corrections if applicable.

Data replacement occurs in:

• the Labelfire Rip or
• in the Qualify sequence of the Prinect Workflow
In an iVDP workflow, the variable data of the VDP Editor in the PDF Toolbox are saved to a PDF. The
Renderer extracts these data and generates an additional "Vardata" file for each logical page during
screening. The Vardata file contains the coordinates and properties of the variable elements, includ-
ing the URL of the CSV data.
At the machine, the data records are added in the positions of the respective placeholders only during
printing. The "PDF/VT" tab turns to "iVDP" if "iVDP Labelfire" is selected as target system. The place-
holder frames for the Labelfire variables always have a fixed width and height. Output on the Label-
fire via iVDP does not support dynamically sized placeholder frames. Conversion from PDF/VT back
to iVDP-PDF is not possible.
34 Version 2019
Versioning Assistant
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New: "Back to file selection": Button in the toolbar.
Motivation: Facilitated operation. Until now, you had to click "Cancel" to return to the file selection:
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New: "Remove White Graphics" also removes white image pixels
Motivation: Error correction in supplied data

One of the most frequent trap errors in separately created data are that the version PDF contains
image frames with 0% filling overprinting base elements if the text black of the version is mapped to
black.
Removing these frames from separately supplied data with the "Clean up" function has been possible
with PDF Toobox for some time.
As a new improvement to this function, the "Remove White Graphics" option now also hides white
pixels in images. This prevents unwanted masking in the base that can occur, for example, when
reducing transparency in the versioned data.

Example: Elements of the base knock out in this PDF of the final print result:

This is caused by a 0% black image frame in the version PDF "overprinting" the black of the base. 
In other words: the 0% black frame of the version covers the 40% frame of the base and therefore
knocks out:
36 Version 2019
Solution: Enable "Remove White Graphics" and click "Clean up". 

This will remove the 0% image pixels that no longer impact on the basis now:

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New: New function for separately supplied data:"Merge Base and Versions"
Motivation: Customer's request; optional correction of errors when merging supplied data:
If "Clean up" fails to provide the desired result, you can apply the new "Merge base and Versions"
function.
When is "Clean up" insufficient, and when should I choose "Merge Base and Versions"?
As described above, knock out effects can occur if the black in the version is merged with the black
of the base. As of Version 2019, a "Clean up" removes 0% image pixels in the version PDF.
A "Clean up" is insufficient if the border between 0% black and 100% black in the version is a
smooth shading.
38 Version 2019
Example:
At first sight, the language layer seems to comprise only 0% K and 90% K:
Language layer PDF: Base PDF:

On closer scrutiny, there is no clear separation between 0% and 90% at the borders but a smooth
shading:
A "Clean up" will not correct the borders. PDF Compare visualizes the differences between the results
of "Merge" and "Clean up" + "Combine":
1. Merge:
2. "Clean up" + "Combine": There are undesired effects in the borders:
When combining base and version, you obtain a PDF with a transparency to which a "Multiply" blend
mode was applied. You must check this PDF with the Versioning Assistant or with Versioning Prepare
during further processing.
40 Version 2019
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New: Inclusion of base when files are supplied separately
Motivation: Improved correction options
When comparing data supplied separately, the impact on the base - i.e. if there is relevant base back-
ground where text knocks out - was not considered so far.

Example: 
The customer has a versioned job with three PDFs:
• Language-independent base
• GB text
• DE text
The gray text (marked red in the screenshot) knocks out. The text will be on a white background after
base and version have been combined. In this case, the white background has no impact on the
knockout text.
PDF "GB text": PDF base: PDF "DE text":
A "comparison" compares the master version "GB text" with the second version "DE text" and checks
for negative impact on the basis such as knockout texts that are reported as an error. 
But this check does not cover the question of whether or not the elements really impact the base,
whether there is really relevant background in these spots.
In PDF Toolbox 2019, you can now choose to include the base in the analysis for comparison calcu-
lation.
42 Version 2019
Version 2018 reported such elements as an error:
Version 2019 optionally includes the base - the white background - and no longer reports an error.
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Note: A comparison including the base file is more time consuming because complex back-
grounds and pertaining previews need to be created for every version.

Assemble Pages
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New: New option: "Merge Pages"
Motivation: As described in the Versioning Assistant you can merge pages here as well. (p. 30 ff)
44 Version 2019
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Before you start ...

Structure of this Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

PDF Assistant: Geometry Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Color Editor: Spot colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Barcode & VDP Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 3

About This Documentation

Structure of this Documentation

• PDF Assistant: Geometry Control:

• Color Editor: Spot colors

• Barcode & VDP Editor

What you should already know

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 5

Example: See section "Important Information", page 6.

Example: Set the switch to "off".

• Menus, functions and sub-functions are separated by ">".

Example: Select "File > Open...".

Example: Press Alt+A.

New: Identifies the new features in a screenshot.

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 7

(For operation, see the video)

Click the icon to open the tool 

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 9

• ·"Foil -> "Color foil"

• ·"Background > "Cold foil colored"

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 11

You can then rotate the exported PDF in Acrobat:

PDF Assistant: Geometry Control

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 13

The page is accordingly added in all data records.

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 15

Motivation: Customers requested the ability to ungroup graphic. 

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 17

Color Editor: Spot colors

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 19

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 21

What is a transparency group?

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 23

Barcode & VDP Editor

As result, the mark displays seconds:

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 25

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 27

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 29

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 31

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 33

Data replacement occurs in:

Motivation: Error correction in supplied data

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 35

Solution: Enable "Remove White Graphics" and click "Clean up". 

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 37

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 39

2. "Clean up" + "Combine": There are undesired effects in the borders:

Motivation: Improved correction options

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 41

Version 2018 reported such elements as an error:

Prinect Product – User’s Guide 43

Copyright © 2018 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.

Die im Training verwendete Software ist ausschließlich für Trainingszwe-