Windows users may want to go to the PStill/Win page directly. Release history- PStill64 1.92.22 for Windows and Linux. PStill64 1.90.32 for Windows. PStill64 1.90.24 for Windows. PStill 1.90.18 for Windows. PStill 1.90.16 for Windows. PStill 1.90.12 for Windows. Including a new command line tool to attach files to PDF and PDF/A. PStill 1.90.10 for Windows. Including STL generation as new feature. Addon PDFInfoTool for Windows released. Addon PDF2r (PDF to rastered PDF) for Windows released. Addon PDF2i (PDF to image files) for Windows released. RaStill – Very fast JPEG/TIFF to PDF converter. Use PStill to parse PDF, PostScript and EPS with the structured output mode. PDF-Marker allows to add visual ‘markings’ (stamps) to a PDF and change/update or remove them later. Easy and high-quality EPS, PS, PDF and several raster image formats to PDF conversion on Windows and MacOS X, able to concat multiple files of all types in the output, also as mixed set.
You can just drop in some PS, PDF and e.g. JPEG files and PStill will create one PDF from the input set. PStill generate also PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3, a focused subset of PDF for ‘pre-press’ work. PStill knows about CMYK and spot colors, handles overprinting and can convert colorspaces. PStill also creates PDF/A-1b, a special version of PDF for archiving purposes and can change the PDF compatibility level (e.g. convert PDF-1.7 to PDF-1.3). Your PDF cannot be printed on some printers or processed with some applications? PStill does sanitize, simplify, reprocess, flatten transparency and recompress PDF-Files, this process also known as ‘transcoding’ create a new PDF that has better compatibility, is often smaller in file size, can be optional encrypted/secured and contain only a uniform set of font types. Fonts can be normalized to plain PostScript Type 1 formats, can be subsetted, missing fonts included and bad fonts repaired/replaced. PStill can detect and remove duplicate elements in the PDF. Text can be converted to outlines which makes it perfect for creating ‘fontless’ PDF.
Transcoding can be used to repair bad PDF or simplify the PDF structure so more limited output devices can process it. PStill also run as command line program and can be easily scripted (BAT, Shellscript, PERL, VB, etc.). The command line converter runs on Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP HPUX and allows you to integrate PStill into any application that is able to call external programs to get full PDF generating functionality. PStill can render all supported source formats to images. For PNG RGB plus alpha channel is generated, JPEG renders to RGB, TIFF to RGB and CMYK. Easily convert a PS or PDF to a set of EPS (incl. PostScript. The conversion does retain vectors and text, can handle Gray, RGB, CMYK, spot colors, overprinting, transparency and writes DSC conforming, flattened PostScript output. PStill works as a job ‘normalizer’ rewriting an existing EPS, PostScript or PDF file by breaking it down to its basic drawing operations but still maintains the same print output.
Flattened PostScript can be processed on most any output device as it contains only a handful well defined operations and maintains a normalized coordinate system. In a process called N-Up processing PStill can ‘place’ and/or rescale pages in the output so the result are e.g. 2 job pages on 1 output page, 4 job pages on 1 output page or any other combinations (assembly is fully scriptable) – to save space or to create booklets. PStill can tile a large page to smaller pages with automatic bleed and cut marks, e.g. for output of posters and construction plans on standard desktop printers. PStill allows to impose several page or parts of pages on each other, add static and dynamic page elements like visual page numbers, barcodes, Javascripts or impose (‘stamp’) logos. PStill can encrypt PDFs and apply PDF document permissions. A special option to autoconvert pre-separated PostScript jobs to composite color PDFs or PostScript/EPS files is available (SeparationToComposite module optional, can be ordered separately).
Your printer cannot print the PDF or PostScript you feed to it? PStill can simplify the job so it becomes printable to limited output devices. PStill can auto convert TrueType or unwrap CID or Type 0 fonts to PostScript Type 1 fonts thus greatly enhancing compatibility of the PDF/PS or EPS results. It can autoreplace DVIPS (TeX) embedded bitmap fonts in PS input by its Type 1 variants leading to better and leaner output. PStill can convert all supported source file types to 3D printable STL, including direct PDF to STL conversion. See the tutorial for a description of the process. PStill is an appication that runs on your computer directly, not a web service. It does not send out data to servers in the Internet, but performs all conversion tasks locally. Using the structured output option PStill can make graphic file formats easily parsable to other applications. This mode also allows for automatic path clipping and conversion of text and lines to fill paths.