Preflight and edit PDF files in Adobe Acrobat

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 which means users can instantly locate issues in files with complete ease.

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 creating and adding 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.

• Change almost anything in a PDF using one-click Actions.
• Select highly granular elements with or without using variables.
• 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 convert colors in your PDF and 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.

Ensure Consistency with Resource Syncing

Sharing resources across a company is challenging. Manually exporting/importing resources between users is inefficient and can lead to inconsistencies and versioning nightmares. Resource Syncing eliminates this problem by allowing PitStop Pro and PitStop Server subscription users to synchronize their Preflight Profiles and Action Lists with the revolutionary Enfocus Cloud.

• Share resources (Action Lists, Preflight Profiles) across users.
• Eliminate manual export/import and potential version conflicts.
• Ensure everyone works with the most up-to-date resources.
• Recover synchronized resources seamlessly in case of computer failure.

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.

See what's new in PitStop Pro