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Add Page Numbers To PDF Pages With Enfocus PitStop Pro

October 23, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Are you looking for a solution that can add page numbers to PDF documents? Perhaps you’d like to automate this as part of a regular workflow? Or maybe you need to remove page numbers before adding new ones that are sequenced and formatted differently? For example, how about a use case where you need to start page numbering with “1” but on page 3 of the PDF?

Enfocus PitStop Pro makes it easy to add page numbers!

PitStop Pro is a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional and it is compatible with Mac and Windows. With PitStop Pr0 you can convert any PDF to an iPad-ready PDF, a print-ready PDF, or an optimised PDF for client approval.

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Preflighting PDF Files According To Their Production Requirements

September 17, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Do you deal with PDF files that have variable production requirements? Are you currently using a lot of different Enfocus Preflight Profiles to cover all the different job requirements?

Enfocus Smart Preflight technology can simplify your preflight process!

What is Enfocus Smart Preflight?

Historically a Preflight Profile or Action List could only contain fixed checks and corrections e.g. the resolution of an image must be higher than 300 dpi or the number of separations must be 4.

However, every job is different and comes with its specific production requirements. This means handling many changing requirements like diverse page formats, differing numbers of separations, etc.

With Smart Preflight, instead of creating lots of different Action Lists and/or Preflight Profiles, you create variable sets which cover your variable requirements to use inside your Action Lists and Preflight Profiles— hence you can smart preflight your files.
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Process Files From A Job Folder Individually then Recreate the Folder with Enfocus Switch

August 28, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Are you getting files that need to be processed individually within specific batches? For example, maybe you receive a folder of 16 or 24 documents representing individual pages of a document on each of which you need to add a different stamp then reassemble the job into a single folder.

Enfocus Switch can do just that—it makes it easy to automatically process files from a job folder and recreate that job folder at the end of your process!

Enfocus Switch is compatible with Mac and Windows, and with its user friendly “workflow” builder, it will take you less than 30 minutes to create the following automation flow, giving you extra time to focus on new prospects and other work.

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Resizing PDF Pages With Enfocus PitStop Pro

July 30, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Do you deal with PDF files that have no bleed? Do you receive PDF files with incorrect page box sizes? Do you frequently need to resize PDF pages?

It’s a common scenario in the print publishing industry: you have a 8.5 x 11 width and height PDF file but there is no bleed nor any type of printer marks.

Enfocus PitStop Pro can fix this for you. It makes resizing PDF pages easy!

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Split A PDF Into Single Or Multiple Parts With Enfocus Switch Core Functionality

July 10, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Do you need to share only a few pages of a PDF file with another user? Perhaps you want to split or break PDF files into smaller PDF files with less pages per PDF file? Or maybe you want to split up your PDF into single page PDF files?

Enfocus Switch can do just that—it makes it easy to automatically split a PDF into single or multiple parts!

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Automation From File Input To Output With The Use Of Enfocus SwitchClient Module

June 19, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Attaching job ticket information to print jobs doesn’t always require XML sidecar files, databases or other tools. In this article, we’ll show you a fast and powerful method for getting up and running with job ticket information that is used to route and change PDF files via a series of hugely time-saving automated steps.

Enfocus Switch can help you create job ticket information for each job you process, and help you automate your job routing, preflighting, processing, from input to output.

Enfocus Switch is compatible with Mac and Windows, and with its user-friendly “workflow” builder, it will take you less than 30 minutes to create the following automation flow, giving you extra time to focus on new prospects and other work.

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Unarchiving And Sorting Files Automatically With Enfocus Switch

June 5, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Are you receiving single files, folders and zip files? Are you currently downloading, unarchiving the zip files and saving them in different locations depending on their file type or size? Do you need to process the file types within the zip files differently?

Enfocus Switch can do just that—it makes it easy to automatically unarchive and route files to different locations and processes.

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Adding Contours To Artwork In Your Enfocus Switch Workflow

May 16, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Are you dealing with stickers and you are creating a contour around the stickers? Are you adding contours to your artwork in general?

Enfocus Switch 2018 and PitStop Server 2018 can automate this arduous task. They make it easy to automatically add contours to your artwork.

Enfocus PitStop Pro and PitStop Server are compatible with Mac and Windows and they both include the industry-standard Enfocus preflight engine, which checks all aspects of your PDF files like detecting missing fonts, reporting incorrect colours and objects without bleed, to name a few examples.

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Automatically Creating Personalized PDF Files With Data From a Spreadsheet

May 1, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Are you creating PDF files with personalised information from a spreadsheet or database? For example, PDFs with a different name and picture for each student in a yearbook? More generally, are you interested in Variable Data Printing (VDP)?

Enfocus Switch can automate VDP for you. It makes it easy to automatically create PDF files with personalised information!

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How Can I Change Rich or CMYK Black to True Black in PDF Files?

April 19, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

It’s a common scenario in the print publishing industry: you have PDF files with rich black objects (CMYK – 50, 50, 50, 100 or 70, 35, 40, 100 or 35, 60, 60, 100) and you need to convert those objects to 100K.

Enfocus PitStop Pro can do this for you. It makes selecting rich black objects and changing them to true black easy!

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