The Design Layout panel lets you choose from common page sizes to see which page items may be in unsafe areas of your layout. This overlays colors onto the “safe” areas of your PDF page, based on your binding choices, making it easy to see and adjust any objects or text that are in danger of being obliterated after printing.
If you’ve ever printed (or seen) a page where the important page items have been trimmed off of the edge of the page, or punched through with binding holes, you’ll appreciate the extremely helpful “Design Layout” feature. You just choose where you want your original page layout to appear on the new page size, and how to scale it. You can select objects by layer, move them to new layers, delete layers, or make them invisible.Ĭhanging the overall page dimensions is relatively easy, for example to adapt an A4-sized page to a US Letter-sized page or vice-versa. You can use PitStop’s Layers tools to isolate layers that are visible or invisible. Sometimes, you don’t want to remove an object, but instead just hide it temporarily. You can also change the stacking order of objects and get rid of crop, trim, and registration marks. Or, add page numbers and other variable text such as date and time, or author information. For example, you can paste a smaller PDF on top of a larger PDF page, perhaps for a last minute ad change. There’s also a handy eyedropper tool for copying and pasting attributes from one object onto another. Helpfully, PitStop has a “select similar” feature that can find all the objects similar to the current one, and then take you to them for adjusting. Since it’s likely that if you’re editing one object of a certain kind, you’ll need to edit others in the same PDF. The icons along the left side provide further granularity - here, you can choose Image Properties, Resample the image, or Compression options. The icons at the top let you inspect Fill and Stroke, Text attributes, Image info, Prepress issues, Separations, Object Position, and a Summary. The Inspector panel tells you everything about a selected object. You can even use another object as a mask for the image. The tools for pixel-based images are equally useful: you can change an image’s color mode, resolution, compression settings, color profile, transparency, blending mode, or replace it altogether with a different image. Here, we’re viewing the tools for editing objects and text. PitStop’s editing tools are added to Acrobat’s “Tools” panel. You can change the typeface, style, size, and even find and replace strings of text across multiple PDF pages. When working with text, you can recombine broken lines into complete paragraphs, which makes editing MUCH easier. Or, using PitStop’s shape and pen tools, you can create a new Bezier object. If the object is Bezier line art, you can adjust its fill, stroke, stroke style, and even adjust individual anchor points and handles. You can change the attributes of any object, such as its position, size, rotation, skewing, flipping, color, transparency, blend mode, and so forth.
You can almost think of it as an InDesign or QuarkXPress for PDF files, with a little bit of Illustrator and Photoshop thrown in for good measure. Part of a completely automated PDF workflow, when used with Enfocus’ other products.Īs a PDF-editing tool, PitStop has no equal.A PDF Certifier, to ensure compliance with international standards.A PDF-repurposer, to convert a press-ready PDF to an iPad-ready PDF, a Web-ready PDF, or a small PDF for client approval.A PDF preflighting tool to automatically find and fix any conceivable problem.An editor for objects on PDF pages, similar to a page layout application.Based on user needs, its developers have been steadily improving PitStop since its beginnings in 1998, adding capabilities and improving the efficiency of common tasks.ĭescribing PitStop Pro is a little like the proverbial three blind men describing an elephant: depending on which part of it they encounter, they describe it differently - a rope, a tree trunk, a wall, etc. If you’ve wished that Acrobat could help you edit a PDF in some way, chances are that this plug-in for Acrobat provides it. But if you’re working with PDF files on a frequent basis, you probably have a lengthy wish list of features for Acrobat that would make you more productive and make it easier to edit objects inside a PDF.
Pros: Can find and edit anything in a PDF.Īdobe Acrobat Professional provides some fairly powerful features that can help you find potential problems with PDF files, such as fonts that aren’t embedded or images with substandard resolution or color spaces.
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