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News Release from: EnFocus Software NV | Subject: Pitstop Professional 7
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 January 2006
Pre-Flighting Improvements On Show At
Ipex 06
Enfocus will be previewing its Pitstop Professional 7 at the Ipex 2006 exhibition in Birmingham (UK) in April.
Enfocus will be previewing its Pitstop Professional 7 at the Ipex 2006 exhibition in Birmingham (UK) in April The new version of Enfocus' bestseller focuses on productivity and usability
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 19 Jul 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Enfocus has declared Ipex 2006 a very successful show, with popular demonstrations of the company's new Pitstop Professional 7 and Pitstop Automate.
With Pitstop Professional 7, the company has finalised the process of ensuring that all Enfocus applications are available within its own core Pitstop library.
Enfocus said that it has improved the pre-flighting achieved with Pitstop with the latest release.
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, said the company.
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The pre-flight 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, said Enfocus.
The in-application help system from Instant PDF 3 is now also available in Pitstop Professional 7.
Each Pitstop panel has a help section explaining its functions, making it easier for users to correctly utilise them.
In addition, the pre-flight report help section has been integrated giving concise, but complete, information on the messages found on the preflight report itself.
That allows the operator to act quickly and accurately on errors found in the report, claimed the company.
Pitstop Professional 7 also introduces 'view' and 'file settings'.
The exchangeable settings extend the pre-flight 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 enhanced by introducing category filters, enabling specific actions to be found more quickly.
Users can 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 simpler and faster to build action lists for automated editing in any of the Enfocus products.
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, said Enfocus.
"Developing Pitstop Professional 7 has turned out to be an interesting journey," said Tom Peire, director of corporate marketing at Enfocus.
"Customer feedback has taught us that we have a lot of excellent functions but that it is not always easy to find within the increasingly complex application Adobe Acrobat has become.".
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