by Tami Stodghill

Enfocus has developed a commanding tool set that takes care of all the would be headaches in PDF exchange. Their certified-PDF technology not only guarantees that a PDF was preflighted with the relevant PDF profile, it also provides a comprehensive preflight report and keeps track of all the changes made to a PDF throughout the entire workflow.

PDF editing tools, such as Enfocus PitStop Professional, are very convenient for making intermediate or last-minute corrections in PDFs. Products such as these save you both time and money because you do not have to relaunch the original application to make changes and then recreate the PDF. PitStop Professional gives you that capability in an easy-to-use and dependable Adobe® Acrobat® Plug-in.

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PitStop Professional has perfected the interactive error-checking process, boasting all the necessary interactive error-checking and correction tools. Since it is an Adobe Acrobat Plug-in, you can open any PDF, preflight it with one of the standards-based PDF profiles included in the package, or customize your PDF Profile and modify the file when needed — and since PitStop lets you spot potential problems before the job goes to output, you save money. In today’s economy, who doesn’t need that?

Through global change and action lists, PitStop Professional enables you to automate recurring and repetitive tasks that otherwise would take hours. It also means that any last-minute incoming ads that have errors won’t keep you from making your deadline. PitStop Professional’s menus are integrated seamlessly into the Acrobat menus and it also has dedicated menus of its own in the Acrobat menu bar: Certified PDF and Plug-Ins > Enfocus PitStop Professional. The PitStop Professional toolbars are intuitively located next to or below the Acrobat toolbars.

To preflight PDFs with PitStop, you use what are called PDF profiles. A PDF profile is a collection of criteria or guidelines that a PDF should meet to be output worthy. For each criterion, you can specify if it should be checked or not and how it should be listed in the preflight report (e.g., warning or error), if a deviating property is detected in the PDF.

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