It’s there! Yes, Apple has announced the release of macOS Big Sur for November 12th (that’s cool, a gift for my name day! 😉). You cannot wait? We understand you! But unless you’re reckless, are you sure it’s a good idea to install it tomorrow? As always, we invite you to be very careful, as…
Four Pees, international distributor and integrator of products and solutions to streamline print and packaging production, announces its intent to integrate the activities of agileStreams, French integrator of solutions for the graphics industry. As a part of this collaboration, Christian Blaise, CEO of agileStreams will join Four Pees as Director Professional Services & Support. In…
No Drupa, but a new PitStop! No Drupa, but a new PitStop! In this particular year, we won’t have the chance to walk the aisles of the Drupa in Düsseldorf, but that won’t stop us from enjoying the new version of PitStop, which has just been released and which offers an avalanche of new features.…
Coronavirus Covid-19 You are obviously affected directly or indirectly by the Covid-19 coronavirus. Perhaps many of your operators are working from home. To make this difficult production period easier for you, Enfocus is making PitStop Pro licenses available to its customers, completely free of charge. You can then install these licenses on additional workstations or…
We wish you a great 2020, full of success! In 2020, agileStreams will once again be at your side to help you automate your tasks and save you time. Haven’t you used us yet? It’s not too late, take THE good resolution of the year and contact us! See you soon!
Use Case One of our loyal historical clients asked us if we could improve his proofing process. Indeed, it processes a lot of files in its control and proofing workflow and, in many cases, the files contain technical inks such as diecut, varnish, etc. These inks are obviously using spot colors and, therefore, when the…
callas pdfToolbox 11 callas software has just released the new version of its flagship software, pdfToolbox. What does callas offer us this year with this new version? This major version brings so many new features that it is difficult to cover everything here. We will focus on a few functions that we find particularly interesting.…
This article is based on the presentation we gave at the FourPees/callas/axaio VIP Event 2019. A variable and scalable flow That’s a wish we all have! Make our workflow as variable as possible, so that we do not have to make changes all the time, and allow it to take into account new use cases…
Would you imagine driving your car without insurance? Living in your home without insurance? Let your children go to school without insurance? Of course not and you want to be able to protect yourself from any risk on a daily basis. But there is one area where you may be very helpless in the event…
Hurry up, some new stuff! Apple has just released the new version of macOS, Catalina (10.15). Great, I absolutely need to download this jewel right now! No, no, no, no! Absolutely not! In a production environment, you must be careful with new releases! In addition, this new version of Apple’s OS breaks the compatibility of…
In the world of graphic production, it is common to produce several versions of the same PDF file. Here an high-res. version for print, there a low-res. version for online distribution… Usually, this leads at best to automated cascade processing; at worst to a succession of manual actions. However, thanks to callas pdfToolbox, it is…
PDF page boxes There are 5 page boxes in a PDF file: Mediabox Trimbox Bleedbox Cropbox Artbox These different boxes are used to precisely define the content of your PDF file. They may or may not be present in your PDF file, depending on the software and method you used to create your PDF. The…
Back-to-School! Today is back-to-school and we hope you had a great summer. We are ready for another year of Tech Mondays, we hope you will enjoy reading our posts again. Last year, you may have missed one of our articles, so here we present you the most successful ones. Have a good back-to-school reading! …
Some of you are probably already relaxing at the beach. Others are about to go. Some will have to wait for a little bit longer before having a nice break. You may take advantage of your vacation to read a few books and we wanted to suggest you a few of them. Here are 3…
Something people ask us very often if how long will it take to preflight a PDF file? Sorry to bear the bad news here but there is just no simple answer to this question. PDF is a container and nor the weight nor the number of pages can indicate the length of the preflight operation.…
If you are a lucky Enfocus Switch Licence Owner, you know some flows can get very complex. Of course you probably tackled it eventually stacking branches and commands or developing a Script. But did you think of looking at Enfocus AppStore first? Not every single Switch User knows about Enfocus AppStore. However some resources are really…
Switch 2019 Spring Enfocus inaugurates the new naming of versions with this new version of Switch, Switch 2019 Spring. This new version brings some interesting new features, summarized in this video: Messages Completely redesigned messages interface Contains new filters: A slider for viewing a from-to timeline Buttons to quickly filter on message type Text…
The right settings…. In a previous edition of our Tech Mondays, we explained the PitStop workspaces to properly set up your PDF production environment and keep it under control. We received many comments on this article indicating that this function was very useful and finally ensured that the workstation was correctly set up. However, several…
PitStop Pro Workspaces Have you heard about PitStop Pro workspaces? Probably not… This feature is very powerful to improve your productivity with PitStop Pro, and allows you to create workspaces dedicated to specific use cases, such as inspection, correction, etc. but also correctly configures your Acrobat for prepress production. Isn’t Acrobat correctly configured by…
At first an email After I just left a Hotel, I received an email right away containing the invoice as attached PDF file. It’s quite usual nowadays for companies working on their digital transformation. So the reason why we write this post is that the email was also containing the exact same invoice as…XML. Suddenly,…
As you know now, we are huge fans of the Apple Touch Bar, once customized with BetterTouchTool. So we thought that a Touch Bar, specifically developed for callas pdfToolbox, a very powerful PDF tool, but whose functions are sometimes a little hidden and with few keyboard shortcuts, would be a great help to improve your…
Enfocus has released the 2019 version of its PitStop Pro and PitStop Server products. As usual, the software vendor continues to innovate by offering new features particularly useful in production. Here are the three features that we think are the most interesting. Show objects outside of page box In case you still do not know,…
In previous Tech Mondays, we told you about the problems coming from the use of OpenType SVG fonts for printing. The first solutions are now available, especially thanks to the new update release of Callas pdfToolbox released last week. agileStreams, serving the printing industry Thanks to our intensive testing on these new fonts, the…
The issue A colleague recently reported this user case : A Switch flow creates folders thanks to the “Archive Hierarchy” element. So far nothing unusual but something seems wrong. Two folders are created and they bear the exact same name! No OS on Earth would create folders with identical names. So what, our friend had…
7 free webinars to learn more about PDF The Ghent workgroup is starting a new series of webinars starting April 11th, with an introduction to PDF and PDF/X standards. Not registered yet? It’s not too late! 7 webinars are planned in the coming weeks, one of which we will have the pleasure to present on…
Today is April Fool’s Day and as part of the Tech Mondays, we had thought to prepare a technological hoax, but finally, we decided to offer you a new Automation with Enfocus Switch, but in a fun mode! In the video below, you will see a Switch flow that triggers a green, orange, or red…
To face its rapid development, the team is strengthened with the arrival of Vinod Kirouchenamourty as consultant. He will now be in charge of technology watch and customer support. The arrival of Vinod is an excellent thing for agileStreams says Loïc Aigon, CTO: “I’ve known Vinod for several years and his versatility has always impressed…
Innovation rewarded! We are proud to have received the Solution Battle Award 2019 by Tim Bernaerdt, Sales Manager and Toon van Rossum, Product Manager at Enfocus. This award rewards the company that presents the most innovative use of Enfocus switch and the participants have given us the honor to get the greatest number of votes.…
If, like us, you are a happy owner of MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, here is a custom bar for Acrobat & PitStop that will greatly improve your productivity. After we posted our first Touch Bar trial on LinkedIn, we received a lot of requests to find out how we did it. Today we will…
In our last Tech Monday edition, we introduced the concept of JavaScript applied to the Print market. We have received a lot of positive feedback. However some people told us that a real demonstration could help for a better understanding. Indeed, what’s the point of JavaScript when your flow is already working fine without it…
You knew everything about blankets, screens ruling, color bars, etc. Now you have to add variables, loops and conditions to your daily job! There are more and more software which offers a Javascript engine to drive your production workflow. Let’s have a quick overview. Javascript, remember? Blinking animations, counters for everything, crazy mouse cursors? Those…
Today, we propose you to come back on last week Tech Monday on OpenType SVG fonts and PDF. We pursued our tests, including QuarkXpress, and we had the opportunity to present our work as part of the Ghent Workgroup meetings. We will summarize here our new findings as well as the results brought by the…
Have you heard about OpenType SVG fonts ? These new fonts, mostly dedicated to the web, contain colored glyphs (in RGB colorspace) and are not monochromatic, as traditional fonts. They are now supported in the Adobe CC 2019 suite (this was already the case for Illustrator CC 2018) and Adobe offers two of them, Emoji…
Indeed Santa! You could have used automated processes just like our agileStreams’ customers. Have you also countless tasks to be handled in a short time? We can help you!agileStreams wishes you the best for 2019!Jean, Christian & Loïc Photo by bruce mars on Pexels
bleuprocess and Ozalto Productivity become agileStreams, the leading organization, data and process consulting company for the entire graphics chain. Since September 1, 2018, Christian Blaise, bleuprocess owner and Loïc Aigon, owner of Ozalto Productivity have decided to join forces and create a new entity dedicated to graphic arts consulting. “I have known Loïc for many…