Enfocus, a leader in PDF quality control, advanced PDF editing and workflow automation for the graphic arts industry, has released PitStop Pro 2021, PitStop Server 2021, and PitStop Library SDK 2021.
“Once again, Enfocus has listened to their customers and developed major new PDF editing and quality control features,” says a press statement. “Among these are a trio of PitStop Actions that will appeal directly to label and packaging printers.”
PitStop 2021 will allow users to check, clip and create bleed along a vector contour. This will make quick prepress work of PDF files with dielines or digital cutlines.
“We made a huge leap forward with the way we're adding bleed to line-art,” said Andrew Bailes-Collins, senior product manager at Enfocus. “We no longer mirror content, we now extend the actual line-art. This is what an operator would do when manually editing a path. Now it’s an Action.”
Booklet imposition is also coming in PitStop 2021. PitStop has had a standard Action for breaking apart spreads. Now, there will be an action for creating printer or reader spreads.
Other PDF production relevant additions to PitStop:
Align and Distribute Objects Action – this was previously a manual Action, which now can be automated
Consolidate Fonts Action – fixes multiple font subsets to improve output performance
Flatten Type 3 Fonts Action – converts Type 3 fonts to normal page content
Separate Stroke and Fill Action – splits the stroke and fill of an object into two new objects
Add Hems and Pockets Action – mirrors page content based on trim and bleed, which will come in handy for large format production
The complete list of new features and improvements to PitStop Pro 2021, PitStop Server 2021, and PitStop Library SDK 2021 can be found at: https://www.enfocus.com/en/pitstop-pro
