PitStop Professional 08 is the de facto standard for graphic arts and publishing professionals who need to preflight, edit or fix PDF files. No other preflight software comes close to PitStop Professional 08's comprehensive range of tools. Unprecedented control over your PDFs right up to the minute they go to press.
PitStop Professional 08's extensive preflight options that ensure every possible error is caught before output. With customisable preflight reports and a new enhanced PDF Navigator, it's easy to jump from the preflight report right to the problem object. You can even sign off on a problem if you know it won't cause problems in your workflow.
PitStop Professional 08 performs a wide range of fixes for common PDF prepress errors. There is no need for time-consuming manual changes. You can even embed Enfocus Action Lists right into your PDF Profile. These Action Lists make powerful automation possible: adding or removing logos, page headers or converting colours, for example.
PitStop Professional 08 also fully incorporates Enfocus award-winning Certified PDF technology. This allows you to track changes to files, roll back to previous versions and guarantee PDF quality from start to finish in your workflow.
PDF preflighting may seem complicated. PitStop Professional 08 makes it easy by providing a broad selection of pre-configured PDF Profiles that check and correct all common prepress errors.
PDF Profiles based on PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4 and the very latest Ghent PDF Workgroup standards are incorporated.
And for those times when you need to make manual changes to a PDF, PitStop Professional 08 provides a host of powerful tools. Select and edit PDF elements such as text, vector objects, raster images, then change properties such as fonts, font embedding and outlining, colorspaces, size and position, image resolution, ICC profiles...
You can even add bleed and do colour-managed colour conversions on an object-to-object basis - features hard to find in a fully-blown DTP application! For maximum colour fidelity, pick the colour engine of your choice from a range of industry standard CMS solutions.
If you feel the need for speed, try using PitStop Professional 08's Global Changes which provide easy-to-configure document-wide modifications such as global colour or font changes.
Highlights:
1. Comprehensive Preflighting Made Easy
PitStop Professional 08 is not only capable of performing a wide range of checks on just about every imaginable PDF element, it can fix them as well!
The range of possible checks and fixes for diverse PDF problems is huge. But it becomes simple thanks to the intuitive, step-by-step interface that is laid out in categories familiar to print professionals.
With PitStop Professional 08's PDF Profile Editor you get the best of both worlds - ease-of-use and powerful functionality. And to help you start preflighting immediately, PitStop Professional 08 ships with many pre-configured PDF Profiles that will have you up-and-running with confidence in record time.
And Enfocus Action Lists allow you to build powerful document-modifying scripts directly into the preflighting process.
2. Custom Reports and a New Feature-Rich Navigator
PitStop Professional 08 preflight reports are now easier to read, print better and can even be customised to match your brand. Preflight reports can also be embedded into the original PDF to provide clear and straightforward information to all users associated with a file.
Navigating through the preflight report is now easier than ever too.
3. Built for Publishing and Printing Pros… with Built-in ROI
In a business of short turnarounds and tight budgets, prepress professionals know how much a single botched job can cost - even when it's not your fault! Integrating PitStop Professional 08 into your workflow is the fastest and most cost-efficient step you can take in eliminating these headaches upfront.
4. Editing Features - Individual & Global
With PitStop Professional 08 you have more access to the elements in a PDF than even hardened PDF experts can quite believe. From DTP-style changes to nitty-gritty prepress modifications, PitStop Professional 08's incredible toolkit gives you unprecedented access.
And if you get tired of clicking, try the powerful and intuitive Global Changes. They allow users to quickly automate common editing tasks through entire documents. With Global Changes, your document will be press-ready in a matter of minutes, if not seconds!
5. Fully Integrated Certified PDF technology
Enfocus Certified PDF technology allows you to standardise and control files no matter how disparate your sources, and frees you from concerns over liability issues.
With Certified PDF, you have a host of workflow enhancing technologies built right into the PDF.
• Files arriving in your Inbox contain an embedded PDF Profile, allowing you to verify if the document creator has preflighted the file against the PDF Profile you specified before sending it to you.
• Each Certified PDF contains a history of all changes made to the file, allowing you to trace who made them, when they were made, and what the changes were.
• Certified PDFs have the option of rolling back to a previous version of the file. Changes you've made to a PDF at any stage can be undone - it's non-destructive editing for PDFs!
And if you add a contributor's subscription to CertifiedPDF.net to your workflow, you can share your quality PDF Specifications created in PitStop Professional 08 over the internet with users of other Enfocus Products such as Instant PDF and PitStop Server. Users will be automatically kept up-to-date with your latest specifications.
6. Standards-based and a Standard in Itself!
PitStop Professional 08 ships with a wide range of pre-configured, standards-compliant PDF Profiles, including PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 and the very latest Ghent PDF Workgroup specifications.
Given Enfocus PitStop Professional 08s incredible host of tried-and-tested features for checking and editing PDF files, it's no wonder that many industry key-players have chosen the Enfocus PDF processing engine as the de facto preflighting standard and incorporated it in their own solutions. Enfocus OEM partners include Agfa, Heidelberg, Screen, and others (see enfocus.com) - a sure sign that PitStop Professional remains the most trusted tool in PDF preflighting.
New Features:
Sign-off on preflight errors
Preflight profiles can be created in such a way that the user can override certain errors; if such an error is discovered during preflight, the user is allowed to sign off on it and indicate that in his workflow this item will not be an issue.
New PitStop Inspector
A complete redesign of the inspector regroups properties in a much more logical way. The new inspector is significantly smaller and can be collapsed to avoid obscuring the PDF document.
Better page configuration (page box) handling
If a document contains trim marks, PitStop Professional can automatically locate these and use them to set a proper trim box for the page. In many cases PitStop Professional can also automatically fix objects without proper bleed.
Contextual menus
Using contextual (right-click or option-click) menus, the selection tool provides much quicker access to frequently used functions.
Updated to the latest standards and operating systems
PitStop Professional 08 supports the new PDF/X-4 and the latest specifications from the Ghent PDF Workgroup. Microsoft Windows Vista and Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) are supported as well.
Colour Conversion
Separate colour conversion tool to deviate from the colour management preferences and use other colour settings e.g. device links, evaluate values, retry, etc.
Technology
• Detect objects without proper bleed and possibility to fix many of these problem objects.
• Trim marks can automatically be located and used to set a proper trim box for the page.
• Additional check for image resolution to warn if resolution is in a "grey" zone.
• PDF objects can belong to one or more layers, also called Optional Content Groups. PDF layers are very powerful and have nothing to do with object ordering.
• Annotated Reports combine report information with the processed document, which can be exported from the PDF. This allows inspecting the report info without using Enfocus software.
•Sign-off preflight errors that may be overridden and are not an issue in the given workflow.
• Support PDF/X-4 and the latest specifications (1v4) from the Ghent PDF Workgroup.
• Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is supported.
User Interface Experience
• Redesigned the inspector to logically regroup items and make the window significantly smaller and even collapsible.
• Contextual (right-click or option-click) menu for quick access to selection related functions.
• Rearranged colour management preferences to avoid confusion.
Highlights:
Find errors in the PDF faster than ever before
• 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
