Enfocus Intel Mac and Adobe 8 compliant

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Enfocus, an Artwork Systems brand, announces its most recently launched products to be both Adobe Acrobat 8 and Intel Mac (Universal Binary) compliant. The company’s flagship PDF plug-in, PitStop Professional, along with PitStop Server, a tool for high-volume PDF preflighting, and Instant PDF, which produces press-ready PDFs with the utmost ease, now provide customers with additional speed and functionality.

‘Our key products are now fully operational with the Intel Mac platform and the latest Adobe Acrobat 8,’ commented Filip Carrein, product manager Commercial Colour and Publishing. ‘We are delighted that our customers will be able to take advantage of the increased speeds and extended options these upgrades will provide, and are confident that the latest versions of our software bring many new and enhanced features that ensure they will continue to be favored by publishing production departments across the world.’

Globally recognised publishing technology and process consultant, David Zwang, said, ‘Using PitStop Profiles and Action Lists are still the best way to check and fix almost any PDF that finds its way into your production workflow. PitStop Professional is a must have for any PDF production workflow, and PitStop Server is the best way to ensure that when large volumes of pages make their way through your process, they are ready to RIP.’

Enfocus PitStop Professional 7.1
This latest upgrade of the industry’s most popular PDF preflighting and editing tool, PitStop Professional, offers many new features for end users, and strengthens the Certified PDF technology that so many magazine and newspaper publishers and printers rely on for reliable and accurate file exchange.

As well as supporting Intel Mac and Adobe Acrobat 8, version 7.1 features a new Navigator, which allows the user to identify and interactively correct errors reported in preflight more easily than before. Time-consuming repair of common errors can be automated with newly redesigned Global Change and Action List features.

In addition, there is the option to outline text and a new place PDF function for simplifying the building of a page from multiple PDFs, which was requested by prepress and ad agency professionals.
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The preflighting capabilities of PitStop Professional are beyond compare. Compliant with the PDF/X and Ghent PDF Workgroup specifications, Enfocus PDF Profiles allow checking of all critical issues and the automatic correction of about 140 of the most common errors. Enfocus Certified PDF technology embeds the PDF Profile and preflight report in the file for easy file exchange. The report layout in this latest version is customisable and clear - easy to read and print.

Enfocus PitStop Server 4.0
With the additional speed from its support for Intel Mac, and its ability to let users identify and pre-flight PDF 1.7 files produced from Acrobat 8, Distiller 8 and other applications capable of exporting PDF1.7 files, PitStop Server 4 is also now fully compatible with PitStop Professional 7, and allows end users to share PDF Profile and Action Lists across the complete workflow. Using Enfocus PDF Profiles, Action Lists and Certified PDF technology, it instantly analyses, corrects, reports on and routes files based on the most stringent industry standards, including PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, and Ghent PDF Workgroup.

End users simply have to drop PDF files into an input folder and PitStop Server 4 does the rest, preflighting, correcting a wide range of prepress problems and rejecting files that don’t come up to scratch. PitStop Server 4 also contains powerful Action Lists to automate repetitive editing tasks such as page numbering and color correction.

Additionally, this latest version provides robust crash protection by catching and quarantining unstable PDFs; reports can be generated in XML format as well as PDF format, and it also watches for free maintenance updates and payable software upgrades, alerting the administrator if a new version becomes available.

Enfocus Instant PDF 4.0
The latest version of the Enfocus tool which, using award-winning Enfocus Certified PDF technology, is the simplest and most reliable way to create PDFs that comply with print or advertisement vendors’ specifications. Enfocus Instant PDF 4.0 is fully compatible with PitStop Professional 7 and PitStop Server 4, using the most up-to-date set of Enfocus PDF Profiles and Action Lists.

Additions to the functionality of Enfocus Instant PDF 4 include the facility to export press-ready Enfocus Certified PDFs directly out of QuarkXPress 7 and Adobe Illustrator CS2. Other new facilities include the support of FTP passive mode enabling users to transfer PDFs wherever they are, and improved performance due to the fact this version is less resource intensive.

With Instant PDF 4, print providers will see a significant reduction in the workload suffered by customer service and prepress operators, because Certified PDF files are always output correctly from the designer’s workstation. With Certified PDF technology, the files are flagged as ready for output as soon as they arrive in your inbox.

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