• Use existing PitStop Preflight Profiles and Action Lists
• Automated PDF preflight & correction
• 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

Use existing PitStop Preflight Profiles and Action Lists

Actions are always included in Action Lists. Action Lists are sequences of one or more tasks. As most of the time, several tasks have to be performed one after the other, and often in a fixed order. If you have to repeatedly perform same operations on your PDF files multiple times, you can simply re-use the Action List.

To preflight PDF documents, you use Preflight Profiles. A Preflight Profile is a collection of criteria which a PDF document should meet to be output worthy. For each criterion, you can specify:

• If it should be checked or not
• How it should be listed in the Preflight Report, i.e. “Warning” or “Error”
• How the problem, if any, should be fixed

Automated PDF preflight & correction

How exactly does preflighting work in Enfocus PitStop Server? The typical stages in a preflight check are the following:

1. In your Hot Folder setup, select the Preflight Profile you want to use.
2. Note that you can create, edit or import other Preflight Profiles than the default ones, via the Preflight Profile panel (Window > Preflight).
3. Place PDF documents in the input folder (defined in your Hot Folder setup) to have them checked and fixed automatically.
4. Enfocus PitStop Server checks the PDF documents and depending on the Preflight Profile fixes problems, if any. It generates a Preflight
5. Report and saves the Report in a log folder.
If necessary, re-check the PDF document until it is output-ready and can be taken to the final output stage, e.g., for print, press or online viewing.

PDF transparency flattening

The new ability to flatten transparencies within PDF files aids the consistency of output. Although the latest print engines can flatten transparencies earlier RIPs widely in use cannot always handle transparency reliably. PitStop Server now enables transparency flattening to ensure predictable output.

PDF Color Management

Enfocus PitStop Server can be set to use the same profiles for all objects, or to use specific profiles for images. In the first case, there will only be one tab, to define color management for all objects. In the latter case, there will be a tab to define color management for images, and one for other objects.

Enfocus PitStop Server enables you to specify source and target ICC profiles for the following color models:

• Gray
• RGB
• CMYK
• Lab

The ICC profiles will be used when color conversions have to be done from one color model to another, for example, when RGB colors are converted to CMYK colors.

Automatic pickup and delivery via FTP and email

Additionally, Pitstop Server also brings a long list of file handling automation features to all of your PDF production processes.

• Monitor 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

File sorting, routing, renaming and archiving

When setting up a hot folder, you can specify all folders and organize them in such a way that they fit your working environment best. For example, you may choose to save processed documents in separate folders, depending on their process result (OK, Warning, Error...) or you can save all processed documents in the same folder. The same applies to original documents, non-PDF files and process reports.

PitStop Server 2020 System Requirements