Reply To: editing press ready PDF

To answer the OP, Jongware is right – indesign is not a PDF editor. the Pitstop software the OP mentions is made by Enfocus called Pitstop Professional (though they make other software too). However, this is an ACROBAT plug-in, not indesign.

In a perfect world, i'd agree too that final art PDFs should not be edited once created… in a perfect world.

Sadly, much of my work is spent using Pitstop whilst in Acrobat to do just that – edit PDFs supplied by clients to edit potential prepress issues. This is purely because artwork was supplied as PDF and the rep/client cannot or will not supply native files, so editing PDFs the only option.