PitStop Server is PDF preflight automation

PitStop Server brings powerful quality control and automation features to your PDF production process by:

• Monitoring multiple file submission points, such as FTP servers, emails and network hot folders
• Intelligently routing your files for PDF preflight and correction
• Fully automating delivery and archival of production files

PitStop Server automates onboarding, preflight and PDF file repair while providing access to functionality that broadens your approach to workflow automation.

How PitStop Server makes your life easier

Save time and money
Save time and money by automating PDF preflight and repair

Guaranteed high quality
Reduce the risk of human errors, create reliable, repeatable results

More time for the tough stuff
Free up your staff to work on complex jobs and provide better customer attention

50% discount!

Trade-in a PitStop Server License for a subscription.

Key features

• Use existing PitStop Preflight Profiles and Action Lists
• Automated PDF preflight & correction
• Automated repurposing of PDF files
• PDF transparency flattening
• PDF Color Management
• Automatic pickup and delivery via FTP and email
• File sorting, routing, renaming and archiving
• Split and merge PDF files
• Zip and unzip job folders

Connect with more applications

Expand your PitStop Server automation by integrating third-party solutions with buy-and-download simplicity.

Enfocus Appstore offers a variety of applications to enrich and improve your PitStop Server environment.

Most of the apps are available with a 30-day trial or are free to use.

Connect with even more applications

Switch is more than a workflow automation platform, it’s also the flagship of a new movement.

A movement of print production professionals who don’t want to adapt to all-in-one, vendor-specific workflow solutions.

Because they believe that technology should follow their process, and not the other way around.

Switch automates your processes regardless of your print applications or devices by giving you all the pieces you need for your workflow to work your way.

PitStop Server CLI

Do you want direct communication PitStop Server?

Get under the hood and access the engine using the command-line interface.

Pass instructions from your business front-end systems to PitStop Server for a more dynamic solution.

Access PitStop Server’s PDF to image capabilities.

Resources to get you started and to keep you going

Product videos
Check out our set of short videos about PitStop Pro tips & tricks, new features, better insights, etc.

Monthly workshops
Join our Product Manager in one of his monthly workshop webinars, attended by over 500 customers on average!

Enfocus support
Policy and contact hours

Preflight your way

Speed up your workflow with the world’s most reliable prepress tool.

• Comprehensively preflight and edit PDF files for print
• Boost prepress efficiency with automatic fixes
• Join a 150,000-strong professional user base
• Get started fast – PitStop Pro is an Adobe® Acrobat® plug-in

30 days. No credit card required.

50% discount!

Trade-in a PitStop Pro License for a subscription.

PDF preflight check

Validate PDF files for print in seconds with the industry-standard preflight tool. Need to make edits or automate fixes? PitStop Pro delivers robust preflighting, editing, repairing, and reporting for any PDF challenge your team faces.

Interactive preflight report

PitStop Pro generates a preflight report based on the precise benchmarks that you choose. Reports are as basic or detailed as you or your customers require, and can be shared as a PDF file.

A PitStop Pro preflight report also contains a clickable list of warnings and errors that mean users can instantly locate issues in files with complete ease.

Full PDF editing

Need to make minor – or major – edits to a PDF without going back to the designer? PitStop Pro can edit any PDF element directly from within Adobe Acrobat:

• Paths – edit any vector object or add your own, including masks
• Images – resample, reposition, rotate, crop and more
• Color – locate and convert objects in any color space
• Layers – manage, move, toggle and edit PDF layers
• Pages – visualize and edit PDF page boxes, add/remove global page elements
• Fonts – edit any text, and embed/replace problem fonts

Deep PDF insights

There’s a lot more to most PDFs than meets the eye. PitStop Pro provides a deep look into your PDF file. Get new insights on:

• Page geometry – detailed stats on all PDF page boxes
• Object containers – complete info for all paths and masks
• Fonts – font type/family info down to the subsetted glyph
• Color modes – gray, RGB, CMYK, Spot, Device Link, ICC, and more
• Image resolution – find images in any resolution range
• Transparency – scan for all instances of live transparency
• Object stacks – check (and change) object stacking order
• Hidden, non-printing items – find then visualize in wireframe model

Automate any task with Action Lists

With a full library of Action Lists included to get you started, you’ll immediately be making one-click fixes to everything from font embedding to adding missing bleed. Creating your own Action Lists is also simple and intuitive, bringing high-value, personalized automation to your fingertips as soon as you fire up PitStop.

• One-click Actions can globally change almost anything in a PDF.
• Selection of elements can be highly granular and even variable-driven.
• Perform a massive variety of corrections and changes.
• Place or replace objects across pages like logos, barcodes, or page numbers.

Conquer Color

With full support for ICC profiles and Device Link color conversions, as well as spot color and a full Pantone® library of colors, PitStop Pro has everything you need to tame even the full spectrum of color issues.

• Check the color modes of objects and documents
• Verify naming consistency, and fix issues
• Remap from colors, color ranges or color spaces to new values
• Convert any color space of any object, object type, or globally
• Explore many more spot and special color functions

Workflow insights

Access your PitStop Pro usage data from your Enfocus account. A detailed dashboard displays insights into how you are using PitStop Pro that can help with both business and production decisions.

• Number of files processed
• Number of files fixed and number of errors
• Top preflight results
• Combine multiple PitStop instances for a complete overview of your usage

Your dashboard delivers a valuable overview of in-app activity, allowing you to quickly determine the quality of incoming job files and how they’re being handled.

Always innovating

PitStop Pro has been evolving for over 25 years with regular updates and feature additions that have made prepress work more productive for over 135,000 professionals across the globe. Yes. PitStop Pro can do that too.

Latest innovations include the ability to trace rasters to vectors and computer vision functionality that enables PitStop to look for images, and shapes such as logos to check if they are present or absent in a PDF file.

Customers using PitStop Pro

“We now process up to 10 times as many orders as before, due to a faster way to detect and correct errors in PDF files. The core of that success is Enfocus PitStop Pro.”

Bhaskaran. K
Assistant Pre-press Manager, Masar Printing & Publishing | Dubai

“We love our automated solutions, but we also need to provide personal service to our customers. PitStop Pro is the perfect solution to achieve that. We take a look at the automated preflight report and in addition, we offer to correct typos and other non-technical mistakes in the job.”

Jimmy Hartington
IT-Manager / Graphic Designer, Skabertrang | Silkeborg Bogtryk

При подготовке материала использовались источники:
https://www.enfocus.com/en/pitstop-server
https://www.enfocus.com/en/pitstop-pro