Enfocus software PITSTOP EXTREME 08 User Manual

Quick-Start Guide

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Contents

5. About this Quick-Start Help

5. The PitStop Extreme Working area

6. The PitStop Extreme Toolbox

6. The Job Window

7. The PitStop Extreme Palettes

8. Editing a job

9. Editing Objects

11. Running a preflight check

13. Viewing and interpreting Errors & Warnings

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About this Quick-Start Guide

Take a few minutes to familiarize
yourself with this Quick-Start
Guide. It is the best way to get off
to a speedy start with
PitStop Extreme. Create a new,
blank PDF document in
PitStop Extreme by choosing File >
New, or use some sample PDF
documents, and feel free to
experiment and play around with
the tools described in this Quick­Start Guide. You will quickly get an
idea of the essentials of Enfocus
PitStop Extreme.

For detailed, complete descriptions
of all the features and concepts of
PitStop Extreme, please refer to the
User Guide or Help.

The PitStop Extreme Working area

You can find the following elements
in the PitStop Extreme Working
area:

• The PitStop Extreme Toolbox

• The Job Window

• The PitStop Extreme Palettes

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The PitStop Extreme Toolbox

A. Select Tool B. Edit Spline / Cut

C. Transform Tool D. Edit Paint

E. Pan F. Zoom

G. PageBox H. Ruler

I. Draw Box /

Ellipse / Star /
Polygon / Path J. Text / Text Box

K. Densitometer L. Measure

The Job Window

The Job Window shows the open
job. If multiple jobs are open, you
can select them from the Windows
menu.

A. Zoom Factor

B. Certified Status

C. Preview Mode: Outline, Preview or Page View

D. Page navigator

Besides the Zoom and Pan tools in
the Toolbox, and the Zoom
functions in the View window, the
bottom of each Job Window
contains a number of navigating
tools.

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The PitStop Extreme Palettes

All PitStop Extreme Palettes can be
opened from the Window menu.

Selector Change the current selection based on specific parameters.

Align Align the selected objects in the selected direction

Appearance

Paint Change the fill of an object or its stroke

Stroke Change the width, corners and dash of a stroke

Trans parenc y

Transformation

Object

Layers Create layers, move objects to layers, etc.

Separations Change the Inks used in the job.

Images Manage images used in the job

Fonts Manage Fonts and embedding

Document See all info on the current job

History See the History of changes made to the job

Errors and Warnings View the Warnings and Errors generated by preflighting

View Options Change the Preview Mode and View settings

View Page Boxes View all Page Boxes and their dimensions

View Separations Turn separations on or off

Navigation Navigate in the job

Get quick access to the Paint, Stroke and Transparency settings, or
to copy some of these settings from one object to another.

Change or define an objects transparency, blend mode or Opacity
Mask

Move, rotate, scale or shear a selection (object or group of
objects) numerically

Change the object parameters, depending on the selected object:
number of points for a Polygon, Fill Mode for a path, Font and
point size for text, etc.

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Editing a job

Some functions allow to make
changes to the complete document:

• Changing the Job Separations

• Changing the pages of a job

• Changing the Page Boxes

Changing the Job Separations

The Separations, the inks that are
used in the job, can be changed in
the Separations palette: Window >
Resources > Separations.

•Click the Add

Separation button to

add a new ink.

•Double-click a separation’s
color patch to select the
representation color for this
separation.

• Double-click the name of a
separation to change it.

•Set the Type to define the ink
as a Standard, Opaque,
Varnish, or Technical ink.

• Remove an ink by
selecting and clicking
the Remove button.

• Select a separation and
click the Remap button
to remap it into CMYK or
another separation.

By default, changing separations is
applied on the current page.

By clicking the Show Pages
button , you can select the
page you want to change,
or you can select “All Pages”.

Changing the pages of a job

You can change the pages of a job
from the Document window.

• Insert Page lets you insert
one or more pages, either
blank or selected pages from
an existing PDF document.
You can define where to
insert the pages in your job.

•If you want to create a new
PDF document based on
selected pages of your job,
use the Extract pages
function. You can define if the
pages should be deleted from
the original document after
extraction.

•Use the Delete page to
remove a page from the job.
This is only available if the job
contains more than one page.

Changing the Page Boxes

You can use the View Page Boxes
palette to get an overview of all
defined Page Boxes. The color for
the different Page Boxes can be set
in the Preferences.

You can change a page box in
different ways:

•Manual, by selecting the Page
Box tool from the toolbox,
and clicking and dragging one
of the anchor points of the
page box, or by clicking inside
the page box to move it.

• Numerically, by selecting the
Page Box tool and opening
the Transformation palette.
You can define what Page Box
to change in “Current”.

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Editing Objects

In PitStop Extreme, there are many
options to edit objects. A few of
them are described here:

• Transforming an object

manually

• Transforming an object

numerically

• Changing the appearance of

an object

• Changing text

Transforming an object manually

You can move, scale or rotate an
object, using the Transform tool
from the toolbox.

After selecting the tool, there are
different possibilities:

Action Result

Click outside
selection

Drag inside
selection

Drag inside
selection, holding
Shift key

Arrow keys

Drag one of the 8
handles

Drag one of the 8
handles, holding
Shift

Drag outside one
of the 8 handles

Select / Deselect
objects

Move

Move Vertically or
Horizontally

Move over the
preset distance

Resize

Resize
proportionally

Rotate

Transforming an object numerically

You can move, scale, rotate or shea r
objects numerically using the
Transform palette.

1 Select the object(s) you want

to transform

2 Open the Transform palette

3 Define the Origin for the

transformation: either one of
the 9 points on the selection,
or the center of the ruler

4 Define or change the location

(X and Y), size (vertical and
horizontal, either absolute or
in the % fields), the rotation
and the shearing. You can
perform calculations in the
input fields (e.g. multiply the
value).

Note that the Transform palette can
not be used for transformation if
the Page Box Tool or the Ruler tool
is selected. In that case, the
Transform palette can be used to
transform Page Boxes or to move
the Ruler.

Changing the appearance of an object

The Appearance of an object can be
changed from the Appearance
palette. You can also change a part
of the Appearance from one of the
corresponding Palettes:

• Paint (both Fill and Stroke
paint)

•Stroke

• Transparency

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Change the Paint

You can change the Fill Paint and
the Stroke Paint in the Paint
palette.

However, to define a pattern, the
“Pattern > Make” option from the
Object menu should be used.

The Separations as set in the
Separations palette are available in
the Paint palette.

1 Select the object(s) you want

to change

2 Open the Paint palette

3 Select the Paint Mode: No

Paint, Flat, Gradation or
Image.

4 Set the values as needed:

• For Flat Paint: enter a
percentage for every
separation

• For a Gradation: set the
gradation to Radial or Axial,
and enter a percentage for
the end points of the
gradation.

• For Image: select the image to
be loaded, and (re)assign the
channels to the separations.
You can double-click the
preview of the image to edit it
in the default editing
application (e.g. Photoshop).

• the Cap: the end points of an
open path stroke

• the Join: how the corners are
formed

• Dashed: to create dashed
strokes, based on the dash
and gap distances

Change the Transparency

You can change the Transparency
settings in the Transparency
palette.

However, to define an Opacity
mask, the “Opacity Mask > Make”
option from the Object menu
should be used.

1 Select the object(s) you want

to change

2 Open the Transparency palette

3 Set the Blend mode you want

to use

4 Set the Opacity percentage

5 If an Opacity Mask is defined,

you can Invert it, or use it to
Clip.

Transparency settings can be
applied to objects, or to object
groups. Using the button in the top
left corner of the palette, you can
switch between the settings for the
object, and the settings for the
enclosing group.

Change the Stroke of an object

You can change the Stroke of an
object in the Stroke palette.

The settings you can change are:

• the size (width) of the stroke

Changing text

Changing text is done using the Text
tool, and the Object palette.

1 Select the Text tool

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2 Click and drag to create a new

Text box, or select existing
text.

3 Open the Object palette.

4 Set Font, size, and all other

text settings as required.

You can re size and move text blocks
by dragging the handles or by
dragging in the text block.

Running a Preflight Check

About Certified PDF

Enfocus Certified PDF technology
guarantees quality, eliminates
ambiguity and communicates
precisely at every stage in the PDF
workflow. Certified PDF ensures
that a PDF document has been
preflighted with the appropriate

Difference between a Certified and a regular preflight check

If you are going to run a preflight check on your PDF document, you can
choose to perform a Certified PDF preflight or not (regular preflight).

Regular preflight

A regular preflight does not change the Certified PDF status of the PDF
document:

PDF Profile, storing both the
preflight report and the PDF Profile
inside the PDF. Upon opening, you
have immediate visual feedback on
whether the file is Certified, which
eliminates unnecessary
preflighting.

If, at the time of preflighting, Then

The PDF document is not a Certified
PDF.

The PDF document is a Certified PDF. The PDF Profile embedded in the Certified PDF

The PDF document will remain “unCertified”.

document will not be removed, even if you
preflight the PDF document with a different PDF
Profile in Document > Preflight.

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Certified PDF preflight

A Certified PDF preflight checks and changes the Certified PDF status of the
PDF document as follows:

If, at the time of preflighting, Then

The PDF document is not a Certified
PDF.

The PDF document is a Certified PDF. The PDF document will already have a PDF Profile

You will be asked whether you want to start a
Certified PDF workflow for this PDF document.

embedded. PitStop Professional will check
whether the PDF Profile you selected in the Save
and Preflight dialog is the same as the
embedded PDF Profile:

• If the PDF Profiles match, the PDF document
will be preflighted.

• If the PDF Profiles do not match, you will be
asked whether you want use the PDF Profile
you just selected in the Save and Preflight
dialog instead of the embedded Certified PDF
Profile.

To run a regular preflight check

1 Open a PDF document.

2 Choose Document > Preflight.

3 Select the PDF Profile you

want to use.

4 Use the Errors & Warnings

panel to browse through the
results and view the report.

To run a Certified preflight check

1 Open a PDF document.

2 Choose File > Save and

Preflight.

3 Select the PDF Profile you

want to use.

4 Use the Errors & Warnings

panel to browse through the
results and view the report.

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Viewing and interpreting Errors & Warnings

You can run an Action List or PDF
Profile to check and change your
PDF document. If you do so, you
can view all Errors and Warnings in
the Error & Warning palette.

To view and interpret the Errors & Warnings

1 Choose Document > Run

Action List or Document >
Preflight and select an Action

List or PDF Profile, or choose

File > Save and Preflight.

2 If necessary, open the Errors

& Warnings palette from the

Window menu. It will be
opened automatically if any
warnings or errors are found.

3 For errors and warnings

concerning specific objects, a
triangle is shown before the
Descriptions. Click it to see the
objects involved.

4 Double-click one of these

objects to select it and zoom
in to it.

Generate a Preflight Report

You can generate a Preflight Report
PDF document:

• by clicking the Report button
in the lower right corner of
the Errors & Warnings palette.

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• by clicking the Status in the
lower right corner of the Job
window, and clicking Show
Report.

Section Contents

Errors, Warnings & Fixes (potential) problems according to the selected PDF Profile

and changes which have been made in the PDF document.

General File Information properties of the PDF document, such as PDF version, title,

author, etc. and security information.

Font Information all fonts used in the PDF document, along with their

attributes (type of font, embedded or subset, etc.).

Image Information all images in the PDF document, along with additional

information (for example physical and effective resolution,
page, angle, custom color functions, etc.).

OPI Information OPI usage in the PDF document.

Color Information all color spaces (RGB, CMYK, etc.) used in the PDF document,

with additional information where required.

PDF2Go Information information about layers in PDF2Go documents.

Page Box Information pages boxes, if any, which are used in the PDF document

and their respective sizes.

Output Intent Information output intent of the PDF document.

Contents of a report

The report generated by
PitStop Extreme is also PDF
document. It can include the
following sections:

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