Enfocus announces PitStop Pro 10
October will see the first commercial availability of PitStop Pro 10, a major upgrade to Enfocus’s PDF editing and preflighting application. This latest version offers improved colour management and expanded collaborative working tools. Also, for users in a collaborative working environment with multiple copies of PitStop Pro 10, new PitStop Workgroup Manager allows central management and standardisation of preflight settings, Action Lists, Workspaces etc. This is available with Floating Licenses, where copies of PitStop Pro can be installed on any number of terminals within a local area network, but only a certain number can be used simultaneously.
With PitStop Pro 10 multiple colour management presets can now be saved for quick and accurate application when needed. The Color Picker panel can be used to import users’ own colour libraries and includes the latest Pantone Plus libraries. The preset manager can display all colour libraries and users can add favorites and search for colours.
Action Lists is the automated sequence of checking, automatic editing and fixing in PitStop Pro. A new interface offers drag and drop functionality. Through grouping, you can structure an Action List logically and comment on the different Actions.
QuickRuns, which allows users to run repetitive tasks through a single click, which apply changes across all the pages in a document, can now also include Global Changes and became exchangeable.
In response to customer requests the new version includes improvements to Design Layouts, management of page boxes and guides, and the ability to search within the Font Picker and show RGB values as 0-255, etc. For graphical editing it’s also now easier to move objects over a bigger distance through a shortcut.
PitStop Pro 10 runs as a plug-in with Adobe Acrobat 8 and 9 and supports the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Windows 7 operating systems as well as older systems.
With immediate effect, buyers of PitStop Pro get a version 9 key and will receive a free upgrade when version 10 becomes available.?
Customers using PitStop Pro 7.x have until the end of the year to upgrade – until release date there is a special pricing of 199 Euro when pre-ordering the upgrade to version 10. After the release the upgrade price will be 259 Euro. As of 1 January 2011 these users will have no upgrade path.
Enfocus has also announced PitStop Server 10 which introduces major new automatic features, including transparency flattening, new colour management capabilities and PDF optimisation to reduce file sizes.
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