New features in PitStop Pro
PitStop Pro 2018
Release date: 24 April 2018
The latest version of PitStop Pro are all about making life easier, saving time and providing additional advanced editing functionality – PitStop 2018 ensures a print-ready PDF file every time!
Action List visualizer
- See what an Action List is doing as it’s being created
- Quickly identify and fix problems within an Action List
- Edit as you work and resolve problems on the spot
Hard crop line art
- Reduce the complexity of files
- Improve rendering and output performance
- Crop unnecessary clipped content
- Preserve visual appearance
Add barcodes to PDF files
- Generate barcodes directly in PitStop
- Over 100 types of barcodes
- Options for bar width reduction, quiet zones and control digit
My PitStop Pro dashboard
- Opt-in online dashboard
- Production transparency
- Review of PDF file types received
- Visual overview of file problems
Pantone color Actions
- Check spot colors against the correct Pantone library
- Ensure Pantone colors are consistent across documents
- Remap Pantone colors based on a name match
Vector editing tools
- Combine and divide groups of line art objects
- Ideal for work with dielines and cutter guides
Other new features
- Select objects that look black
- Report on color type of pages (for impression ‘clicks’)
- PitStop Server XML report v3
- XSLT option in Switch configurator
- Check minimum dot Action
- Exclude soft masks from resolution check
- Select closed path Action
- Color with variables
- Print state of layers
- Page scaling (userunits)
- Add copied graphic improvements
- Add Bleed to Mirror only
- Colors can now be defined in Lab
- Over 40 new default Standard Action Lists
- New Devicelink Profiles for TAC Reduction and Conversion
- New Output Intents from Fogra and the Idealliance
Compare PitStop Pro versions
| 2018 | 2017 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | |
| Add Barcode Action | ||||||
| Action List Visualizer | ||||||
| Crop Line Art Action | ||||||
| Stroke to Fill Action | ||||||
| Offset Path Action | ||||||
| Pathfinder tools and Action | ||||||
| Preflight report chapter on Color of Pages | ||||||
| Action to check for Minimum Printing Dot | ||||||
| Action to select objects that look black | ||||||
| Action to remap all Pantone colors to a single library | ||||||
| Action to hard crop line art | ||||||
| Action to remap Pantone colors between defined Libraries | ||||||
| Action to check if a Pantone color is part of a library or not | ||||||
| Action to normalize Panone color names | ||||||
| Variables to work with color values | ||||||
| Action to select closed paths | ||||||
| Option for Image Resolution Check to ignore soft masks | ||||||
| Actions to select, check, fix layers by print state | ||||||
| PDF Geomapper | ||||||
| Inspector panel for Transparency Groups and Masks | ||||||
| Select concealed / visible objects Action | ||||||
| Layer chapter in Preflight report | ||||||
| Round cornered rectangles | ||||||
| 41 DeviceLink profiles shipped as standard | ||||||
| Re-order and delete pages Action | ||||||
| Ink Coverage to ignore named color separations | ||||||
| Scale Selection Action | ||||||
| Improvements to Scale Page Size Action | ||||||
| Select overlapping / underlying objects Action | ||||||
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| Preflight restrictions | ||||||
| Customizable Preflight messages | ||||||
| Customizable Action List messages | ||||||
| Generate bleed Action | ||||||
| Improved log selection Action | ||||||
| Improvements to Workgroup Manager | ||||||
| Cut - copy - paste in Action Lists | ||||||
| Check number of nodes on a page | ||||||
| Select pages Action can count from the back | ||||||
| Select inside contour Action (dieline / cutter guide) |
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| Select spot color now allows lists of colors | ||||||
| Scale Actions work to 4 decimal places and with Variables | ||||||
| "Just make my Office PDF work" Preflight Profile | ||||||
| Improved Preflight image resolution reporting | ||||||
| ISO 19593-1 Processing Steps support | ||||||
| Action to remove object level metadata | ||||||
| Action to remove attachments from PDF files | ||||||
| Option to turn off anti-aliasing when rasterizing | ||||||
| Action to convert shadings (blends) to images | ||||||
| Esko Packaging Preflight Actions | ||||||
| GWG2015 Preflight Profiles | ||||||
| Updated Pantone libraries including Pantone+ in Lab / CMYK | ||||||
| Create Action Lists directly in the Preflight Profile editor | ||||||
| Retina icon support for Acrobat DC | ||||||
| Integration with Monotype missing font solution | ||||||
| Image adjustment - tonal curves | ||||||
| Image adjustment - brightness / contrast | ||||||
| Image adjustment - Unsharp masking | ||||||
| Gradient / Blend creation and editing | ||||||
| Ink Usage Report | ||||||
| RGB Black Image to Black channel only | ||||||
| Alignment tools | ||||||
| Group and ungroup objects | ||||||
| Customizable keyboard shortcuts | ||||||
| Modernized selections | ||||||
| Global color curves | ||||||
| Use of regular expressions in Action Lists | ||||||
| Anti-aliasing in image conversion | ||||||
| Improved working with PDF layers | ||||||
| "Look" function in Inspector | ||||||
| Smart Preflight and correction | ||||||
| Improved Preflight Profile editor | ||||||
| Streamlined Navigator | ||||||
| Find and replace text | ||||||
| Merge into text lines | ||||||
| Split spreads into single pages (Split pages in half) |
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| PitStop Workgroup Manager | ||||||
| PDF/A, check and fix to this standard | ||||||
| PDF/X-4:2010 compliancy | ||||||
| Optimize PDF files | ||||||
| Global Changes in QuickRuns | ||||||
| Redesigned and enhanced Action List engine | ||||||
| Enhanced design layout | ||||||
| Search functionality on the font and color picker | ||||||
| Import color libraries | ||||||
| Pantone Plus added to Pantone color libraries | ||||||
| Check total ink coverage | ||||||
| Color management presets | ||||||
| Black point compensation when converting color | ||||||
| Channel remap | ||||||
| Workspace | ||||||
| Design Layouts | ||||||
| Redesigned and enhanced Global Change engine | ||||||
| Unified Preset Manager | ||||||
| Floating licenses | ||||||
| Outline problematic fonts | ||||||
| Place PDF in PDFs | ||||||
| Run Action Lists during Preflight | ||||||
| Universal Binary | ||||||
| Work with different font types | ||||||
| Support for Little CMS, Adobe CMM | ||||||
| Text display in wireframe mode | ||||||
| Sign-off on Preflight errors | ||||||
| New PitStop Inspector | ||||||
| Separate Color conversion panel | ||||||
| Better page configuration handling | ||||||
| Annotated Preflight Report |
