The preflight check can also include automatic fixes for problems such as incorrect colour spaces, missing fonts or unwanted spot colours. Preflight checks can be chosen from a standard set which include PDF/X and the Ghent PDF Workgroup standards, or users can define their own routines from a list of possibilities. PDF files are opened in Adobe Acrobat, after which the user selects the PitStop Pro menu and can choose to preflight check the files or just edit them. Originally it was aimed at commercial print, newspaper and magazine production, but as the use of PDF became more widespread, features were added to help with applications such as digital print, sign and display, packaging and labels as well as traditional repro and advertising. When was it launched and what market is it aimed at?

There are facilities for automatic editing, for instance a new ability to generate grommet hole markings for banner type applications. Its manual content editing abilities are notably more extensive that those of Adobe Acrobat or Illustrator. It is supplied as a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat and can be used to check, verify (such as for PDF/X), report, auto-correct or convert (say RGB to CMYK) and edit the graphic and text content of PDF files.

PitStop Pro is a digital artwork quality control, editing and production aid.

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