PitStop Server 2020
Released 23 April 2020
PitStop Server 2020 highlights
The following videos highlight new features available in this latest release.
Tracing
- Make vectors from raster images
- A huge time-saver for wide format printers
- Color swatches in PitStop Inspector
Overlay PDF
- Overlay one multi-page PDF over another
- Page-based check for bleed
- 20 new action lists
- Search and replace text
Visually look for objects - PATENT PENDING
- Using computer vision, PitStop will scan a document for certain objects
- Verify branding, logo placement, etc
List of new features, improvements and Actions
- Add Page Numbers Action
- Extended Rasterize Selection
- Normalize Pantone Names Action
- Flip Selection
- Check Page Bleed Action
- Select Tiling Patterns Action
- Check for Corrupt Images
- Color Swatches in the Inspector
- Crop to Clip in the Inspector
- Pantone v4 Libraries Added
- Select by PDF version (PDF 2.0)
- Change PDF version (PDF 2.0)
- Check Acrobat Compatibility
- Overlay PDF Action
- Check if Visual Content Exists Action
- Check for Tiling Patterns
- Check for Number of Images on a Page
- Offset shapes in the Inspector
- Trace in the Inspector
- Updated Transparency Flattener
- Add Copied Graphics using variables
- Add Pages using variables
- Grab Page Box Coordinates
- Select Areas of Dense Graphics Action
- Select Process Colorants Action
- Search and Replace Text Action
- Check for Zero-Width Fill
- Stroke to Fill in the Inspector
- Add Barcode Action
- Add QR Code
For an in-depth description of the new features available in PitStop 2020, refer to the documentation in the release notes.
Older PitStop Server versions
2018 | 2017 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | |
Add Barcode Action | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Optional subscription licensing |
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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 |