Enfocus Unveils PitStop Professional 08

PitStop Professional 08 is the de facto standard for graphic arts and publishing professionals needing to preflight, edit and fix PDF files. No other preflight software comes close to offering PitStop Professional 08’s comprehensive range of tools, giving you unprecedented 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.
Availability
PitStop Professional 08 is available in English immediately. Fully functional (time-limited) trial versions of PitStop Professional 08 can be downloaded now from the Enfocus website (www.enfocus.com).
PitStop Professional 08 is sold through an extensive distribution network and directly from the Enfocus website.
What’s New in PitStop Professional 08
Confidently Convert Colors Using Additional Color Engines
Nobody likes unpleasant surprises. In printing, many of these surprises are caused by color conversion problems. A consistent color management strategy is your only defense.
PitStop Professional 08 offers you the choice between several industry-standard color 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 color engines ensure color 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 RIPs. Amongst other benefits, these RIPs now support transparency, 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 Adaptation
Adapting 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 favorite PDF 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 dialog box whenever you’re opening a file and one of the requirements in the View and File Settings is not respected. This provides 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 color 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 view their jobs under the same conditions.