New features in HELIOS ImageServer UB+

General

HELIOS ICC 4 support

HELIOS Tool Server

Image web preview generation

PDF as image file format

Script Server

General ¹⁾

Additional compatibility and enhancements of image file formats
OPI support of transparent PDF images/documents via EPSF low-resolution layout files
Optimized image conversion and tagging support using the "layout" command. More possible combinations of file formats conversion will now work
New "FilterInks" option for "layout" command to support filtering special color channels of a given file, e.g.: only Black, or only Black and Magenta
Updated the "imageconv.pl" script, which demonstrates the conversion capabilities including the used command lines
The "Touch" utility will not change the file modification time anymore
Image preview and conversion support for PSD/TIFF/PNG images with a transparent background
Additional options to preserve a primary color in images (PureBlack, PureGrays, PureWhite, PureCMY)

HELIOS ICC 4 support

DeviceLink ICC support
Grayscale ICC support
BPC (Black Point Compensation) which is a special treatment of black in conversions

Defining ICC Intents in HELIOS Admin

Additional option to preserve a primary color in images (PureBlack, PureGrays, PureWhite, PureCMY), which can be changed irrespective of vector primary colors (PureVectorBlack, PureVectorGrays, PureVectorWhite, PureVectorCMY)
New HELIOS ICC Tagger application to tag ICC profiles to images (Mac and Windows)
Additional ICC profiles, (sRGBv2 is now default RGB profile)

HELIOS Tool Server

HELIOS Tool Server is a three-component solution for automating (remote) client applications. It is comprised of:

Tool client application (installed with Base UB+)
Tool server application (installs on any workstation or server)
Included tools (installed with the tool server)
- osxhtmlrender
  Mac – Convert HTML to PDF utilizing Apple's WebKit technology
- osxpdfrender
  Mac – Create RGB bitmap previews using Mac OS X rendering technologies
- osxpdfflatten
  Mac – Flatten PDF documents by automating Adobe Acrobat 8.1
- winpdfflatten
  Win – Flatten PDF documents by automating Adobe Acrobat 8.1
- osxapplescript
  Mac – Launch a specified AppleScript

Check additional information in the Tool Server new features page.

Image web preview generation

PNG previews from images
- Photoshop path conversion to alpha channel
- Anti-aliased clipping path
PNG preview from XPV documents
- PDF documents
  Including PDF transparencies
- XPress documents
  XPress 4,5,6 (Mac and Windows)
  New: XPress 7 (Mac and Windows)
- InDesign documents
  InDesign 2, CS, CS2 (Mac and Windows)
- New: CS3 (Mac and Windows)

PDF as image file format ¹⁾

PDF is a very versatile and therefore ideal file format: it supports all major color spaces, ICC profiles, and any compression algorithms. In addition it allows ...

... long-term image archiving
- PDF will survive for many years
... OPI support for PDF images
- Layouts and replacement of PDF images
... image conversion support
- Convert any bitmap image format to PDF
- Convert PDF images to any other image format