PDF preflight check

Validate PDF files for print in seconds with the industry-standard preflight tool. Need to make edits or automate fixes? PitStop Pro delivers robust preflighting, editing, repairing, and reporting for any PDF challenge your team faces.

Interactive preflight report
PitStop Pro generates a preflight report based on the precise benchmarks that you choose. Reports are as basic or detailed as you or your customers require, and can be shared as a PDF file.

A PitStop Pro preflight report also contains a clickable list of warnings and errors that mean users can instantly locate issues in files with complete ease.

Full PDF editing

Need to make minor – or major – edits to a PDF without going back to the designer? PitStop Pro can edit any PDF element directly from within Adobe Acrobat:
Paths – edit any vector object or add your own, including masks
Images – resample, reposition, rotate, crop and more
Color – locate and convert objects in any color space
Layers – manage, move, toggle and edit PDF layers
Pages – visualize and edit PDF page boxes, add/remove global page elements
Fonts – edit any text, and embed/replace problem fonts

Deep PDF insights
There’s a lot more to most PDFs than meets the eye. PitStop Pro provides a deep look into your PDF file. Get new insights on:

Page geometry - detailed stats on all PDF page boxes
Object containers - complete info for all paths and masks
Fonts - font type/family info down to the subsetted glyph
Color modes - gray, RGB, CMYK, Spot, Device Link, ICC, and more
Image resolution - find images in any resolution range
Transparency - scan for all instances of live transparency
Object stacks - check (and change) object stacking order
Hidden, non-printing items - find then visualize in wireframe model

Automate any task with Action Lists
With a full library of Action Lists included to get you started, you'll immediately be making one-click fixes to everything from font embedding to adding missing bleed. Creating your own Action Lists is also simple and intuitive, bringing high-value, personalized automation to your fingertips as soon as you fire up PitStop.

One-click Actions can globally change almost anything in a PDF.
Selection of elements can be highly granular and even variable-driven.
Perform a massive variety of corrections and changes.
Place or replace objects across pages like logos, barcodes, or page numbers.

Conquer Color
With full support for ICC profiles and Device Link color conversions, as well as spot color and a full Pantone® library of colors, PitStop Pro has everything you need to tame even the full spectrum of color issues.

• Check the color modes of objects and documents
• Verify naming consistency, and fix issues
• Remap from colors, color ranges or color spaces to new values
• Convert any color space of any object, object type, or globally
• Explore many more spot and special color functions

Workflow insights
Access your PitStop Pro usage data from your Enfocus account. A detailed dashboard displays insights into how you are using PitStop Pro that can help with both business and production decisions.

• Number of files processed
• Number of files fixed and number of errors
• Top preflight results
• Combine multiple PitStop instances for a complete overview of your usage

Your dashboard delivers a valuable overview of in-app activity, allowing you to quickly determine the quality of incoming job files and how they’re being handled.

Always innovating
PitStop Pro has been evolving for over 25 years with regular updates and feature additions that have made prepress work more productive for over 135,000 professionals across the globe. Yes. PitStop Pro can do that too.

Latest innovations include the ability to trace rasters to vectors and computer vision functionality that enables PitStop to look for images, and shapes such as logos to check if they are present or absent in a PDF file.

BoardingPass : feedback in a minute

Enfocus BoardingPass allows customer-facing staff to instantly validate PDF files for print.

Integrated with an email client, BoardingPass identifies errors that require a file to be resubmitted and automatically drafts an email reply.

Customer service agents gain the power to provide quick and understandable job feedback. Prepress not required.

PitStop Server is PDF preflight automation
PitStop Server brings powerful quality control and automation features to your PDF production process by:

• Monitoring multiple file submission points, such as FTP servers, emails and network hot folders
• Intelligently routing your files for PDF preflight and correction
• Fully automating delivery and archival of production files

PitStop Server automates onboarding, preflight and PDF file repair while providing access to functionality that broadens your approach to workflow automation.

Connect YOU : Create Certified PDF files from any application

Connect YOU takes all the guesswork out of PDF creation for print production.

• Certified PDF Creation
• PDF Preflight and Corrections using the Enfocus Pitstop engine
• Custom job ticketing based on your settings
• Automatic file delivery to just about any type of server
• Create an unlimited number of Connectors on your own computer

With Connect YOU, you make your settings once, create a Connector, and from there on all you have to do is drag and drop, print or export from your favorite Adobe Creative Cloud product to create a perfect Certified PDF for print.