Enfocus pitstop professional

Overview
A one-day course designed to give users who need to create, verify, make and track changes to and preflight professional quality for commercial print use using this industrial strength set of plug-ins.

Prerequisites
A working knowledge of the chosen computer operating system (i.e Mac or Windows on PC), and advanced knowledge of Acrobat and PDF creation from source applications such as QuarkXpress or InDesign.

Course Content What is Pitstop?

• What does it add to Acrobat Installation
• Memory Requirements

Pitstop Work Area

• Pitstop Toolbars
• Buttons
• Palettes
• Preferences

Manupulating Images

• changing colours of line art objects
• overprint
• colour mode
• ICC settings
• OPI info
• Transparency
• transforming objects

Editing text

• lines, paragraph, vertical
• text
• inserting text
• changing font properties
• embedding

Preview and wire frame mode

• copying and pasting attributes
• undo
• redo
• eyedropper
• guides
• comments

Global Changes

• colours
• fonts
• prepress settings
• overprint and knockout values
• force minimum line weight,
• resampling images

Changing Page Contents

• PDF box settings: media, trim, bleed,
• art and crop boxes, removing objects
• inside or outside selections,
• page numbering

Preflighting - what is it?

• PDF properties
• problem reporting
• creating/managing PDF profiles
• preflight reports, regular and certified
• preflighting, Pitstop Navigator panel

Certfied Pdf Workflow

• · Incremental Saves
• Rollback, Creating/Viewing Snapshots
• Setting Personal Identification
• Starting a PDF Workflow
• Job Information
• Verifyiing source document
• Replacng PDF Profile
• Checking Status, Preflight Report
• Edit Log File and History
• Comparing Sessions

Action Lists

• creating, editing, grabbing
• list options from manual changes
• Use of Manual supplied
• Questions and Answers

Questions & Discussion