PDF to InDesign conversion plug-in.
Mike Zahorik, Senior Business Development Manager, InDesign & Illustrator, Adobe
What’s New
What’s New in PDF2ID Standard/Professional 2022
InDesign 2022 support
Support has been added for InDesign 2022 (InDesign CC 2015 to InDesign 2021 releases are supported as well).
Apple Silicon native
PDF2ID 2022 operates natively on Apple Silicon machines and supports Rosetta mode (if required).
macOS Concurrent Processing
The entire Parallel Processing mechanism for the Mac now use macOS native Concurrent Processing technology resulting in about a 50% speed up when processing documents with more than 50 pages (applies to PDF2ID Professional for macOS only).
Enhanced Conversion Speed
The conversion speed has been improved by about 20% in general (applies to PDF2ID Standard/Professional).
Contact Sheet Page property
Contact sheet page property has been added, which allows specifying a particular page range as a contact sheet type; the number of sheets per row and number of columns can be specified. Contact sheet pages are also scaled up automatically to the media size.
Migration to newer Windows technology set
The Windows version of PDF2ID now uses newer Windows infrastructure.
Deprecation of older InDesign
Support for InDesign CC (v9.x)/CC 2014 (v10.x) have been removed.
General conversion and stability improvements
Numerous conversion and stability improvements have been made throughout the PDF to InDesign conversion processing core.
Diagnostics logging
A diagnostics logging mode has been introduced which captures operation flow enabling issues to be pinpointed quickly.
What’s new in PDF2ID Standard and Professional v3.5
Integration with InDesign CS6
PDF2ID has been enhanced to operate and function with InDesign CS6. InDesign CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 are supported as well.
XPS File Conversion
PDF2ID now recognizes and processes Windows XPS files. XPS files are now converted to fully formatted and editable InDesign files.
Hybrid 32/64-bit PDF/XPS v6.0 engine
PDF2ID v3.5 now uses a hybrid 32/64-bit PDF/XPS v6.0 engine. The conversion core is 64-bit savvy and ready.
Enhanced Image conversion support
The image conversion options have been enhanced so that Lab/Grayscale/Indexed Color images without color profiles can now be converted to a specific format independently of RGB/CMYK images.
Layout Reconstruction Core Enhancement
The layout reconstruction core has been thoroughly enhanced dramatically improving the fidelity of the conversion. In particular Table formation, Complex Vector Graphics to image conversion, Paragraph Formation, Frames reduction, Graphics processing and many other areas have been completely enhanced.
Enhanced Character and Paragraph Style generation
The Character and Paragraph style generation mechanism has been enhanced effectively reducing the number of Paragraph and Character styles being created by about 20%.
