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Enfocus adds PitStop Professional Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Compatibility
September 8, 2008 – Gent, Belgium – Enfocus announces the availability of Adobe® Acrobat® 9 compatibility for PitStop Professional 08, and native French, German, Italian, and Spanish language support for PitStop Professional and PitStop Server. The Switch product family is available in German. These enhancements are additional to the major product updates demonstrated at drupa 2008, the world’s largest printing trade show held in Düsseldorf in May. The updates are being made available as a no-charge upgrade for current 08 product users.
“Enfocus is dedicated to ensuring that our products deliver improved productivity through automation for users across the spectrum of the graphic arts industry,” said David van Driessche, Director of Enfocus Marketing. “In addition, our development team has made it a priority to quickly incorporate native language support for the major European languages into our 2008 product suite to bring this same level of automation, accuracy and productivity to our European users in their native languages.”
The latest versions of PitStop Professional, PitStop Server and the Switch product family, as well as fully-functional trial versions of all Enfocus products, are available for download from the Enfocus website at: www.enfocus.com.
“Enfocus has built its reputation and market leadership on the concept of delivering the most reliable and easy-to-implement automation with unprecedented control over PDF workflows,” adds Mr. van Driessche. “These latest announcements reinforce our ongoing commitment to our users around the globe as we continue to enhance the industry’s most comprehensive suite of PDF-based tools.”
Product Details
PitStop Professional 08: Adobe® Acrobat® 9 compatibility, enhanced ease-of use, productivity
PitStop Professional has long been the de facto standard for preflighting, editing and repairing of PDF files among graphic arts professionals who use a PDF workflow. PitStop Professional 08 takes this functionality to the next level with Adobe® Acrobat® 9 compatibility.
Other new capabilities include sign-off on preflight errors, a redesigned and significantly more compact PitStop Inspector, better page configuration handling, faster access to common functions through expanded contextual menus and conformance to the latest standards and operating systems.
In addition, PitStop Professional 08 offers a choice of multiple color engines including the industry standard Adobe® CMM, PDF/X-4 compliance in PDF Profiles and Action Lists (in addition to support for earlier PDF/X levels), easy PDF Profile adaptation to create new preflight profiles from existing items, and user-configurable viewing preferences.
PitStop Server 08: improved performance, full compatibility with new standards
PitStop Server is a Hot-Folder-based application for graphic arts professionals who need unattended PDF document processing or need to process high-volumes of PDF documents. It is the indispensable tool for pre-flight checking of PDF documents, with facilities for fixing many common problems without human intervention.
New PitStop Server 08 capabilities include a totally redesigned and more intuitive user interface, server-based processing (PitStop Server now runs as a service on Windows and as a login item on Mac OS X), the ability to process two PDF documents in parallel for faster performance, more powerful Hot Folder processing, import and export of Hot Folder settings, a detailed history log, improved security and expanded e-mail notification.
Switch 08: improved productivity, more effective device management
Switch 08 is a major upgrade for all products in the Switch family of automation-enabling software (entry-level LightSwitch, mainstream FullSwitch and advanced PowerSwitch), adding significant new functionality and offering new workflow automation opportunities for ad agencies, publishers and printers alike.
With Switch 08, job processing is more predictable even with complex flows, and the implementation of real job priorities allows fast-tracking jobs through a flow. Switch 08 also optimizes the time it takes the first job to flow through a complete flow, enabling better resource management for devices such as proofers and rips.
Hot Folders, FTP and email-receive tools can be scheduled to automatically activate only in a predefined time window and now offer a “read-only” processing mode where the original jobs are left on the server and a copy is processed through the flow. Switch 08 also includes many improved and new tools, and enhances variable data support. Metadata support and scripting capabilities have been greatly expanded in PowerSwitch, offering, for example, support for compression, database access and SOAP or web service communication directly from within Javascript.
About Enfocus
Enfocus provides modular and affordable tools safeguarding job quality and enabling automation throughout the complete production chain. Innovative solutions improve communication between design and production while enhancing productivity and predictability through automation of routine tasks.
Step-by-step deployment dramatically increases added value without forcing users to completely rethink their way of doing business. Well-known brands include Instant, Neo, PitStop and Switch.
Enfocus is a business unit of EskoArtwork and has its headquarters in Gent, Belgium.
About EskoArtwork
EskoArtwork is a global supplier and integrator of innovative solutions for packaging, commercial printing and professional publishing. Its products and services help customers raise productivity, reduce time-to-market, lower costs and expand business.
EskoArtwork employs around 1,000 people worldwide. Its global sales and support organization covers Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Japan, and is completed by a network of distribution partners in more than 40 countries.
EskoArtwork is headquartered in Gent, Belgium, and has R&D and manufacturing facilities in 6 European countries and the United States. The consolidated full year revenue for 2007 amounted to EUR 170 million, with an EBITDA of EUR 30 million.
Further Information
PR agencies Enfocus
Duomedia PR, Lutt Willems
Tel: +32 2 454 85 57
Press+, Irvin Press
Tel: +1 508 384 0608
Enfocus
David van Driessche
Director of Enfocus Marketing
Tel: +32 9 216 98 16
Cell: +32 473 89 44 46
