Enfocus PitStop Professional 08

Enfocus PitStop Professional 08 is known as a smart and useful tool that is the de facto standard for graphic arts and publishing profes-sionals needing to preflight, edit and fix PDF files. No other preflight software comes close to offering PitStop Professional 08 comprehensive range of tools, giving you un-precedented control over your PDFs no matter what your workflow requirements. From hands-on fixes to fully-automated PDF preflighting, correction and modification, quality is guaranteed throughout by Enfocus award-winning Certified PDF® technology, making sure that every PDF leaving your workstation is bulletproof as it goes to press.

PitStop Professional 08's extensive preflight options that ensure every possible error is caught before output. With customizable 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 colors, 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.

Major Features:

1. Comprehensive Preflighting Made Easy
2. Custom Reports and a New Feature-Rich Navigator
3. Built for Publishing and Printing Pros… with Built-in ROI
4. Editing Features - Individual & Global
5. Fully Integrated Certified PDF® technology
6. Standards-based and a Standard in Itself!
7. 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.
8. 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.-
9. 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.
10. Contextual menus
    • Using contextual (right-click or option-click) menus, the selection tool provides much quicker access to frequently used functions.
11. 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.
12. Color Conversion
    • Separate color conversion tool to deviate from the color management preferences and use other color settings e.g. device links, evaluate values, retry, … .
13. 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.
14. 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 color management preferences to avoid confusion.

Requirements:

• Macintosh®
• • Adobe® Acrobat® 7.x on PowerPC® Processor
  • Adobe® Acrobat® 8.x Professional (Universal)
  • Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro (Universal)
  • Mac OS® X v.10.4.11 through 10.5.6 (Universal)
  • StuffIt Expander 10 or higher (for expansion of the installer package)
• Hardware
• • Minimum 256 MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
  • 1.024x768 screen resolution (1280 x 1024 recommended)
  • DVD drive (for installation from the products DVD)
• Color Management:
• • ICC profiles used must be compatible with the selected color management system.
• Compatibility of future products
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