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Enfocus PitStop Professional is an Adobe Acrobat plug-in indispensable for every graphic arts and publishing professional. Its interactive and automated editing capabilities allow everyone to perform advanced PDF editing and correction up until the very last moment. PitStop Professional offers the most comprehensive and intuitive preflight experience available. Its powerful Certified PDF technology provides immediate visual feedback and allows tracking of every edit made to a PDF. Having proven to be a real job-saver, PitStop Professional offers immediate return on investment. New features:
• Sign-off on preflight errors
• New PitStop Inspector
• Better page configuration
• Contextual menus
• Updated to latest standards PitStop Professional’s comprehensive interactive inspection and editing tools enable changes of virtually all of the attributes of a PDF available. Global Change speeds up the editing by offering universal modifications throughout an entire document. Trough Action Lists repetitive tasks are automated. Action Lists can now be interactively recorded. The preflighting capabilities of PitStop Professional are beyond compare. Features:
• Confidently Convert Colours Using Additional Colour Engines
Nobody likes unpleasant surprises. In printing, a lot of these surprises are caused by colour conversion problems. A consistent colour management strategy is your only defense. PitStop Professional 08 offers you the choice between several industry standard colour engines so you can use the same conversion engine throughout your workflow. You can choose to use the Adobe Color Management System (CMS) or the embedded, open-source Little CMS. Both colour engines ensure colour consistent conversions across both Windows and Mac OS platforms. Of course, the default CMS on your operating system remains available as well.
• Benefit from PDF/X-4 Compliancy
More and more pre-press vendors include the PDF Engine from Adobe into their RIP's. Amongst other benefits, these RIP's now support tranparency, various blend modes and layers in PDF files. In anticipation of this phenomenon, ISO has defined a new PDF/X standard: PDF/X-4.
It will probably take some time before all players in the industry have adopted this new standard, Nevertheless, Enfocus' PDF Profiles and Actions Lists in PitStop Professional 08 have already been updated to support the new PDF/X-4 standard, providing you with all the tools required to deal with those cutting-edge PDF files.
• Work with Different Font Types
Switching between font types in PDF files has never been this easy. PitStop Professional 08 provides better and more reliable font operations on all font types. Support for font remapping and for composite fonts in particular has been further improved.
PitStop Professional 08 also allows you to check whether all required glyphs and metrics for the characters used in a PDF file are available. This can be done via an independent Action List, or through the use of the all in one PDF/X compliance check.
• Easy PDF Profile Adoption
Adopting existing PDF Profiles to your needs has never been easier. You can now create a new PDF Profile based on any existing PDF Profile, rather than being restricted to the existing templates. Creating your tailor-made PDF Profile has become as simple as selecting your favourite Profile and making those one or two required changes.
• Keep Control of Your Viewing Preferences
You can configure PitStop Professional 08 to show the View and File Settings dialogue box whenever you're opening a file and one of the requirements in the View and File Settings is not honoured. Thereby providing you with a clear warning when you're leaving your pre-defined working environment. Through View and File Settings you check whether features that influence the way you see the document such as colour management and overprint preview are configured correctly. Use this same feature to check file specifics such as file size and naming convention. These View and File Settings can be saved and distributed to ensure operators at different workstations are viewing their jobs under the same conditions.
• Text Display in Wireframe Mode
In PitStop Professional 08, you can choose how wireframe text is displayed: greeked, outlined or black. Compliant with the PDF/X and Ghent PDF Workgroup specifications, Enfocus PDF Profiles allow checking of all critical issues and the automatic correction over 100% of the most common errors. The totally redesigned Enfocus Navigator speeds up file repair by clearly indicating errors and enables interactive fixing. Enfocus Certified PDF technology embeds the PDF Profile and preflight report in the file for easy file exchange. Enfocus has vastly improved the entire preflight experience of PitStop Professional 08. With a totally revamped Enfocus Navigator, which provides a clear overview of errors, warnings and fixes, and a variety of highlighting possibilities, it is straightforward to browse and fix any errors interactively. The preflight report has been upgraded to represent information even more simply, and can also be customised with company logos making it more attractive to customers. In addition, the user friendliness of the PDF profile editor has been extended by adding an all-in-one PDF/X check. The highly regarded in-application help system from Instant PDF 4 is also available in PitStop Professional 08. Each PitStop panel has a help section explaining its functionality, making it easier for users to correctly utilise those functions which are only rarely needed. In addition, the preflight report help section has been integrated giving concise, but complete, information on the messages found on the preflight report. This allows the operator to act quickly and accurately on errors found in the report. Key Features:
- Advanced interactive editing of text, objects, images and colour
- Place PDFs
- Crop Pages
- Add/edit text in PDF documents
- Automatic font embedding
- Change overprint settings
- Move, rotate, scale or shear objects
- Change the colour of line-art
- View the prepress settings and/or change the overprint settings
- Resample images
- Modify the colour space of images
- Change, remove the OPI information
- Includes Pantone Color library
- Modify the colour space of all objects
- Add, modify, or remove spot colours
- Automated editing for increased productivity
- Execute all editing capabilities through Global Change or Action List on selected pages or entire document
- Outline fonts
- Renumber pages
- Add Page Marks
- Record Action Lists
- Most sophisticated and user-friendly preflighting experience
- All-in-one PDF/X Check
- Comprehensive, customisable preflight report
- Clear error indication
- Navigator for browsing through errors and interactive fixing
- View & File settings: Quality control beyond preflighting
- Checks file viewing environment like colour management, overprint & other settings
- Verifies filename, size another file properties PitStop Professional 08 includes View and File Settings. These exchangeable settings extend the preflight concept by allowing checks to be made on file size and file name length. There is also a warning when, for example, the overprint viewing or colour management settings are not correctly configured, ensuring that beyond regular file integrity, the environmental conditions under which the file is viewed are optimally set. The user interfaces on the Global Change and Action List panels have been greatly enhanced by introducing category filters, enabling specific actions to be found more quickly. Users can effortlessly toggle between Action List and PDF Profile panels and store them locally or centrally, readily accessible for other operators. From within the Action List control panel, actions can now be recorded, making it much simpler and faster to build Action Lists for automated editing in any of the Enfocus products. Highlights:
• Intuitive preflight report provides hyperlinks to objects in a PDF document
• Enfocus Navigator allows to browse through and interactively fix errors
• Includes the latest PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and Ghent PDF Workgroup specifications
• Enfocus Certified PDF technology closes the loop of PDF quality management
• Embeds a PDF Profile, preflight report and comprehensive edit log
• A "green checkmark" guarantees compliance to selected PDF specifications
• Speed up your PDF production process with Global changes and Action Lists
• Change object colours
• Outline fonts
• Add/change page boxes and numbering
• Change overprint settings, line weights
• A repository of the most frequently used Actions Lists is supplied with the product
• Certified PDF.net support through built-in notification
• Used to share PDF quality specifications
• Integrated notification mechanism automatically informs you of any changes to the specifications you are subscribed to Other new or improved features include an easy user interface for creating page box templates, improved panels for setting guides, and the ability to place PDFs in an existing PDF, as well as the capability to convert text to outlines. Important fixes in version 08 Update 4:
• Optimized GWG 2008 and PDF/X4 specifications compliancy.
• Improved default Action List database.
• Fixed bug where page boxes were not displayed correctly in the preflight report.
• Solved bug where wrong number of separations were found in shading mask.
• Fix bug where ColorConvert panel didn't honored Color Management preferences.
• Extended Action List range with visitors for selection and checking on fonts with license flag.
• A dozen of minor bugfixes. Fixes in version 08 Update 1:
• Spot color shading conversions to CMYK
• Better handling of bad/corrupt PDF files
• Compatible with PitStop Server 08 Update 1 |
