Quite A Box Of Tricks Features
Quite A Box Of
Tricks is a
plug-in for Adobe’s Acrobat from Quite
Software.
The aim of Quite A Box Of Tricks is to make easy commonly needed
PDF functions that were difficult, time consuming, expensive, or just
impossible. The functions come under five heading: shrink, colour, transform, fields,
and info. The plug-in is
extremely easy to use, but also comes with a 48 page online guide to give extra
insight into PDF and get the most out of the plug-in.
Why not download a
demo today?
Shrink
- Subsample and/or recompress images without any need to
redistill.
- Can produce dramatic space savings.
- Ideal for web page preparation, proofing, or fixing bad distiller
settings.
- Offers "JPEG extra", stronger compression than Distiller will allow.
- Easy access to compression settings through named profiles.
- See the results immediately - if you compress too much just hit Restore
and try again with different settings.
Colour
- Convert any PDF file to CMYK by converting all RGB and
Lab data to CMYK.
- Optionally convert all spot plates to process (CMYK).
- On MacOS (including OSX) and Windows 98/Me/2000/XP (only) use
ICC profiles for precise, accurate colour conversion.
- Convert to greyscale, or all text to black.
Transform
- Choose a minimum line thickness to make "hairlines" print
on high res devices - fix an entire file at once.
- Scale pages.
- Free rotate by any angle.
- Mirror pages e.g. for film or for fabric transfers.
Fields
- Combine form fields into document so they cannot be
modified or lost.
- Remove all form fields to shrink files.
- Make annotations a part of the document, or remove them all.
Info
- Get information on text and images in a PDF file.
- For text, shows the exact font used, and whether it is embedded and/or
subsetted.
- For images, shows exact dimensions, how well it compressed, JPEG method,
DPI, and more.
- Search document for the largest images or for RGB image to identify
troublespots.
- Shrink or recompress individual images.
- Identify not only the JPEG method but the version of Distiller used to
compress.
Automation
Starting with release 1.2b, Quite A Box Of Tricks can be
automated using the third party plug-in pdfBatchProcess Pro, sold by callas
software as part of pdfToolbox.
Starting with release 1.5, Quite A Box Of Tricks can work with
the new "Batch Sequences" feature of Acrobat 5, without additional software
(provided you have Acrobat 5, or 6/7 Professional, not 6/7 Standard). For
details see the on-line guide.
