Quite A Box Of Tricks makes makes easy work of commonly needed PDF functions that were once difficult, time consuming, expensive, or just impossible. The functions come under five headings: 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.

Note: Please review the Platform and Product Requirements and the Limitations of the Evaluation version before downloading or purchasing this product.

Feature Summary

• Shrink
• Colour
• Transform
• Fields
• Info

Major Features in Depth

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.

Platform and Product Requirements

• Windows 98SE, NT, 2000 or XP.
• MacOS 9.1 or later. To run native in OSX, Acrobat 5.05 or later is required.
• Adobe Acrobat 8.0x, 7.0x, 6.0x, 5.0x or 4.0x (Standard or Pro). The free Reader will not work.

Limitations of the Evaluation version.

• The evaluation version will place an X on each PDF page that is modified.