PitStop Professional 08 release notes

Solution

 

  • PitStop Professional 08: This is a major upgrade for existing versions of PitStop Professional.

Major new features

- Sign-off on preflight errors: PDF Profiles can be created in such a way that the user can override certain errors.
- New PitStop Inspector.
- Better page configuration (page box) handling: Detect objects without proper bleed and possibility to fix many of these problem objects. Trim marks can automatically be located and used to set a proper trim box for the page.
- Color Conversion: Separate color conversion tool to deviate from the color management preferences and use other color settings e.g. device links, evaluate values, retry, … .
- Trim marks can automatically be located and used to set a proper trim box for the page.
- Annotated Reports combine report information with the processed document, which can be exported from the PDF. This allows inspecting the report info without using Enfocus software.
- Additional check for image resolution to warn if resolution is in a "grey" zone.
- Support PDF/X-4 and the latest specifications (1v4) from the Ghent PDF Workgroup.
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is supported.

  • PitStop Professional 08 update 1: This is a free maintenance release for existing PitStop Professional 08 users.

Important fixes

- Fixed bug where panels didn't get displayed to the front.
- Fixed bug where action to set trim box didn't work for PDFs coming from Freehand.
- Fixed refresh problem when moving objects
- Fixed better handling of bad/corrupt PDFs
- Fixed bug where run Action List on user selection didn't work
- Fixed bug where extend objects into the bleed wasn't always giving correct results.
- Corrected spot color shading conversions to CMYK.
- Fixed bug where annotated Preflight Reports didn't get created on Certified PDF files.
- Fix in check on Page Box Layout should for the fix according to PDF/X layout PDF/X-1a:2003.
- Fix for entering values in fields and using the tab-key.
- Fixed refreshing problem with the define page boxes action in Global Change.
- Fixed bug where moving a shading only moved the bounding box and not the shading itself.

  • PitStop Professional 08, update 2: This is a free maintenance release for existing PitStop Professional 08 users. This is an international update so PitStop Professional 08 update 2 is now available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese.

Major new features

- Compatibility with Adobe Acrobat 9.
- Updated PDF Profiles and Action Lists database.
- More solutions available in the Navigator.

Important fixes

- Fixed a problem with color conversion of colored tiling patterns.
- Solved an issue where Action Lists failed to take the Colorants dictionary into account.
- Fixed a PDF/X-4 issue where missing version ID wasn't set.
- Fixed an issue where action "Select outside region" removed too many objects.
- Action Lists and PDF Profiles now support Korean characters.
- Fixed an issue where the Global Change on user selection refused to do color conversions.
- Solved an issue where Create Varnish on a scaled image created a scaled rectangle.
- Soft masks are now handled as regular objects.
- Expanded the requirements to retrieve trim and crop marks.

  • PitStop Professional 08, update 3: This is a free maintenance release for
    existing PitStop Professional 08 users.

Important fixes

- Solved crashing bug when removing logged objects.
- Solved issue where too many transparent objects were removed.
- Fixed problem where Color Preview and Eyedropper showed different color values.
- Fixed bug where trim box couldn't be set on masked object.
- Color convert action doesn't remove dash patterns any longer.
- Fixed page range issue on cropping tool.
- Optimized GWG 2008 specifications compliancy.
- Impure black fix now has priority above impure gray fix.
- Expanded the requirements to retrieve trim and crop marks.
- Solved crashing bug when closing multiple files located on network drives.
- Improved color conversion method.

  • PitStop Professional 08, update 4: This is a free maintenance release for
    existing PitStop Professional 08 users.

Important fixes

- Optimized GWG 2008 and PDF/X4 specifications compliancy.
- Improved default Action List database.
- Fixed bug where page boxes were not displayed correctly in the preflight report.
- Solved bug where wrong number of separations were found in shading mask.
- Fix bug where ColorConvert panel didn't honored Color Management preferences.
- Extended Action List range with visitors for selection and checking on fonts with license flag.
- A dozen of minor bugfixes.

  • PitStop Professional 08, update 5: This is a free maintenance release for existing PitStop Professional 08 users.

Fixed bugs:

- Fixed issue with web download optimized PDF files Improved compliancy with the GWG 2008 1v4 specifications.

  • PitStop Professional 08, update 6: This is a free maintenance release for existing PitStop Professional 08 users.

Most important fix

- GWG 2008 preflight profiles version has been upgraded to v3.2 because of new Action Lists called “Fix fonts” and “Additional checks on fonts” to fix corrupt font width.