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Entdecken Sie die neuen Funktionen von Switch 2022 Fall.

Dauer: 2 Minuten

In diesem kurzen Kurs erfahren Sie, wie Sie PitStop Pro installieren und eine kostenlose Testversion aktivieren können.

Dauer: 5 Minuten

In diesem Kurs lernen Sie, wo Sie in Pitstop Pro die Voreinstellungen (Globale Änderungen, Aktionslisten und QuickRuns) finden und wie Sie sie verwenden können.

Dieses eLearning-Modul besteht aus 5 Teilen:

• Teil 1: Einführung
• Teil 2: Globale Änderungen
• Teil 3: Aktionslisten: Verwenden einer Aktionsliste
• Teil 4: Aktionslisten: Erstellen Ihrer eigenen Aktionsliste
• Teil 5: QuickRuns

Dauer: 20 Minuten

Dieser Kurs besteht aus den folgenden Teilen:

• Überblick über die Kategorien im PitStop Inspector
• Eine interaktive Übung

Dauer: 15 Minuten

Dies ist ein kurzer E-Learning-Kurs über PDF-Versionen und Standards.

Themen:

• Kurze Geschichte von PDF
• PDF-Versionen und ISO-Standards
• PDF-Aromen
• PDF/X und PDF/A
• GWG-Spezifikationen

Dauer: 10 Minuten

Dieses eLearning-Modul besteht aus 4 Teilen:

• Teil 1   - Einführung
• Teil 2  - Starten eines Certified PDF-Workflows
• Teil 3  - Überprüfen einer Certified PDF-Dateien
• Teil 4  - Quiz

Dauer: 10 Minuten

Dies ist eine kurze Einführung in die Funktionalität der Arbeitsbereiche in PitStop Pro.

Dauer: 5 Minuten

Dieser Kurs besteht aus den folgenden Teilen:

• Einführung
• Einrichten von Workgroup Manager
• Einrichten von PitStop zur Verwendung einer Lizenz von Workgroup Manager
• Quiz

Dauer: 15 Minuten

In diesem Mini-E-Learning lernen Sie, wie Sie Ihre eigenen Kurzbefehle in PitStop Pro erstellen können.

Dauer: 1 Minute

Dies ist eine kurze Demo zur Aktivierung eines PitStop Pro-Abonnements.

Dauer: 1 Minute

Dies ist ein interaktiver eLearning-Kurs für neue Benutzer von Switch.

Inhalt:

• Über Switch
• Installieren und Aktivieren von Switch
• Konfigurieren von Benutzern für Remote Designer

Dauer: 20 Minuten

Überprüfen Sie, ob Sie die ersten beiden Module von 'Erste Schritte mit Switch' verstanden haben.

Dauer: 15 Minuten

Dieses Modul umfasst die folgenden 6 Teilen:

• Teil 1: Einführung
  
• Teil 2: Job-Gruppierung aufheben
  
• Teil 3: Hierarchie übernehmen
  
• Teil 4: Hierarchie archivieren
• Teil 5: Hierarchie-Pfad setzen
• Teil 6: Übung

Dauer: 15 Minuten

In dieser Demo werden Sie lernen wie Sie BoardingPass installieren können und wie Sie sich anmelden können.

Dauer: 2 Minuten

In dieser Demo werden Sie lernen, wie Sie PDFs, Dateianhänge und von WeTransfer heruntergeladene Dateien öffnen können.

Dauer: 2 Minuten

In dieser Demo werden Sie lernen, wie Sie vorgehen, ...

• wenn die Validierung der Datei fehlgeschlagen ist
  
• wenn die Datei für die Druckvorstufe bereit ist
  

This short movie demonstrates how you can buy a  subscription online, through the Enfocus website.

Duration: 2 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Isabelle Noppe, Switch Product Manager, on November 6th, 2024.

Topics:

• Get to know Isabelle and what's next for Switch
• What is new in Switch 2024 Fall
• New apps & 'Works with Enfocus Switch' Program

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Jeroen Van Bauwel (Solutions Director at Xeikon) and Davy Verstaen (Appstore Manager at Enfocus) on August 29th, 2024.

Topic: The Xeikon integration in Switch

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Sven Govaert and John Wilson (Kongsberg) and Davy Verstaen (Enfocus), on August 27th, 2024.

Topic: The Kongsberg Integration in Switch

Duration: 1 hour

Ce court film explique comment les équipes peuvent partager leurs ressources (Listes d'actions, Profils de contrôle en amont, etc.) via Enfocus Cloud. Notez que cette fonctionnalité nécessite un abonnement PitStop Pro.

Durée: 2:27

This is the recording of a workshop given by Davy Verstaen, Appstore Manager @ Enfocus and two of our App creators, John Trap (Canon Production Printing) and John Callahan (All Systems Integration) on June 12th, 2024.

Topic: Switch apps:

• PRISMAsync
  
• autoFlow™

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager, and Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on April 3rd, 2024.

Topics:

• PitStop 24 changes
• PitStop 24.03 release
• Some tricks
• Q/A

Duration: 1 hour

This eLearning course explains the basics of Enfocus Review.

• Introduction
• Setup
• Configuration in Switch
• Reviewing a file in the Viewer
• The admin environment

Duration: 20 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Laurent De Wilde and Freddy Pieters on June 15th, 2023.

Duration: 2 hours

This is the recording of a webinar given by Laurent De Wilde and Freddy Pieters on May 11th, 2023.

Topic: Advanced Node.js scripting and npm packages

Duration: 2 hours

What's new in Switch 2022 Fall: Highlights
This product gives a short overview of the new features of Switch 2022 Fall.

Duration: 2 minutes

This is part of the recording of a webinar given by Davy Verstaen about the new scripting features in Switch 2021 Fall. 

Duration: 30 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar for beta users of PitStop 2022 given by John Dean, PitStop product manager, on February 23rd, 2022.

My Enfocus is your customer portal where you can manage all your Enfocus interactions such as assigning subscriptions, checking your dashboards and finding your product keys. This portal has been totally revamped. 

Watch this movie to discover the new and improved My Enfocus.

Duration: 5 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Toon Van Rossum, Switch Product Manager about the features of the Switch 2021 Spring release.

Duration: 40 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bails-Collins on April 1st, 2021.

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, and Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architect at Enfocus.

Contents:

• Using apps from the Enfocus Appstore: some basic apps + PitStop Server apps
• Integrating third-party applications
• Smart preflight with Switch
• Advanced metadata: XML, JDF, webhook
• Connecting with rips, ERP, MIS, databases
• Switch Client and the Switch Web Portal
• The PDF Review module

Duration: 1 hour

Learn about the great new features this upgrade brings:

• Color swatches 
• Tracing a shape to create a path 
  
• New bleed check
• Overlay PDF
• Check if visual content exists (based on computer vision technology)
• A number of new powerful Action Lists

Duration: 3 short movies (about 2 minutes each).

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager at Enfocus, and Deborah Corn on May 28th, 2020.

In this webinar, they give the first demo of our new tool, BoardingPass, which will enable customer facing staff at printing companies to quickly onboard PDF jobs, and give customer feedback in a minute, no prepress required.

Duration: 50 minutes

In this mini-course we explain the use of Split multi-job, one of the Switch flow elements, which can be found in the Basics category.

Other tools that are covered are Archive, Unarchive and Recycle bin.

Duration: 5 minutes

In this short eLearning course, we explain the use of the 'Check if visual content exists' Action, introduced in PitStop 2020.

Duration: 5 minutes

In this eLearning course we'll explain the use of two flow elements that can be used to rename jobs.

Duration: 5 minutes

In this course we explain flow elements that enable you to split up and reassemble folders:

• Ungroup job
• Job dismantler
• Assemble job

Duration: 10 minutes

This movie has been designed to guide you through the online activation and deactivation process for Enfocus software (only valid for perpetual licenses).

Duration: 6:54

This is an introduction to the new features of PitStop 2018 (released in April):

• Massive improvements to Pantone color handling to both PitStop Pro and PitStop Server.
  
• Ability to hard crop line art, allowing you to clean up files quickly and easily.
  
• Action List Visualizer, a new tool that allows you to troubleshoot your Action Lists.
  
• New vector editing tools that allow you to combine and divide groups of line art objects.
• New Action that generates barcodes directly in PitStop.

Duration: 2-5 minutes per movie

This is an introduction to the new features of PitStop 2019:

• Preflighting for digital print: converting pages that "look" black to real black.
• The PitStop Server Dashboard
• Show objects outside page box
• The new Object Browser
• Check barcodes
• Rasterize selection

PitStop 2017 brings an all-new technology to PDF Preflight: the PDF Geomapper Technology.
By preflighting only the objects needed to render or print a PDF, false errors are eliminated.

Duration: 3 minutes

This movie gives a brief overview of the new features of PitStop 13 update 1.

Features include:

• Improved processing speed for PitStop Server
• Add copied graphics Action List
• Contour based selections
• Check, select and replace complex pages
• Improved Crop images Action List
• Improved Select pages Action List
• Improved Select spot color Action List
• ...

Duration: 8:50

This movie highlights the new features in PitStop Server 13, such as:

• The option to edit and create Action Lists in PitStop Server
• The Add bleed Action List
• Customized messages
• Preflight restrictions
• Improvements to the CLI version

Duration: 8:48

This is an introduction to the new features in PitStop 12 update 2 (User units/page scaling factor, customizable shortcuts,...)

Duration: 11:04

Discover the new features in Switch 2022 Spring:

• JSON Support
• Default apps
• Other highlights

Duration: +- 10 minutes in total

This is an introduction to the new features of Switch 2019 Spring:

• Switch Server messages: new design
• Improved Submit points: 
• Submit metadata without a file 
• Create direct link URLs to a Submit point
• Switch Dashboard enhancements
• The Remote process element
• Inject job improvements

Duration: 5 minutes

Duration: 10 minutes

This movie highlights the new features in Switch 13:

• UI improvements
• Web messages

Duration: 4:40

This movie gives a short overview of the new features in Switch 2021 Spring (released May 27, 2021).

Duration: 4 minutes

This is an introduction to the new features in Switch 12:

• Switch Remote Designer
• Users and groups
• Submit points and Checkpoints
• Split PDF/Merge PDF
• ...

Découvrez les nouvelles fonctionnalités de Switch 2022 Spring :

• Prise en charge de JSON
• Applications par défaut
• Autre points forts de cette version

Durée: 8 minutes au total

Este vídeo ofrece una visión general de las nuevas características de Switch Fall 2022.

Duración: 2 minutos

Este vídeo ofrece una visión general de las nuevas características de Switch.

Duración: 4 minutos

Scoprite le nuove funzionalità di Switch 2022 Spring:

• Supporte JSON
• App predefinite
• Punti salienti

Durata: 8 minuti in totale

As from update 1, Connect 13 runs on the PitStop 13 Library.

This brings extremely powerful features to Connect:

• Automatically add bleed to PDF files
  
• Customizable preflight messages
  
• A whole new approach to PDF preflight, called Preflight restrictions
  

This is the recording of a workshop given by 2 of our App Creators, John Trap (Canon Production Printing) and Thomas Deschamps (Bluewest), on March 6th, 2024.

Topics: 

• John Trap from Canon Production Printing introduces the PRISMAsync app bundle, which allows users of Enfocus Switch to take full advantage of the power of PRISMAsync. All apps can create dynamic decisions and/or settings based on JMF responses from the connected Canon device.  
  
  
• Thomas Deschamps from Bluewest presents some of the new apps that Bluewest has released, including the PDF Form app, which won the “Most innovative app of 2023”-award on the Enfocus Virtual Channel Event in January earlier this year. 
  

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager, on January 3rd, 2024.

Topics: 

• Customer cases: 
  • Adding and using output intents
  • Clipping varnish
• PitStop 2023 update 1 release:
  
  • Form XObjects, Transparency, New Actions
  • And many more new features!

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Davy Verstaen, Switch Product Manager, on November 8th, 2023.

Topic: Enfocus Review

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Shone Fix, Phoenix and Griffin Product Manager, on May 8th, 2024.

Topic: Optimized imposition and planning for print converters 

• What is Griffin?
• Why connect Griffin and PitStop together?
• Best practices in setting up and using Griffin
• Review some sample PitStop Actions for wide format
• Intro to Griffin Auto
  

In this course you'll learn the basics of PitStop Pro.

Content:

• Activating a permanent license or subscription
• Exploring the user interface
• Setting the PitStop Pro preferences
• Try it yourself (interactive exercise)

Duration: 20 minutes

In this course you'll learn about PDF quality control ("Preflighting") using PitStop Pro.

Content:

• Introduction
• Preflight Profiles
• Running a Preflight check
• Automating Preflight

Duration: 15 minutes

This course consists of the following parts:

• Introduction
• Setting up Workgroup Manager
• Setting up PitStop to use a license from Workgroup Manager
• Quiz

Duration: 15 minutes

This is a course on Action Lists in PitStop Pro. It consists of 5 modules with a lot of exercises. You can quit whenever you want and resume later.

Each module starts with a short explanation followed by a number of exercises (going from very easy in the first module to quite advanced in the last module). You will be asked to download files with relevant material for the exercises. Note that you must have Acrobat and PitStop Pro installed and activated, so you can practice.

Content of the 5 modules:

• Module 1: Getting Started
• Module 2: Selections
• Module 3: Changes
• Module 4: Checks, informs and settings
• Module 5: Extra exercises

This course consists of the following parts:

• Overview of the categories in the PitStop Inspector
• An interactive exercise

Duration: 15 minutes

This is a course about using Smart Preflight variables in PitStop Pro:

• A short introduction to Smart Preflight
• How to set up Smart Preflight
• Where to find example files and how to use them
• Smart Preflight and Action Lists
• Interactive exercise

Duration: 15 minutes

This is a course about using Smart Preflight variables in PitStop SERVER:

• A short introduction to Smart Preflight
• How to set up Smart Preflight
• Where to find example files and how to use them
• Smart Preflight and Action Lists
• Quiz

This is a short introduction to the Workspaces functionality in PitStop Pro.

Duration: 5 minutes

This course is a short introduction to Certified PDF.
You'll learn:

• What a Certified PDF is, 
• How to create one and 
• How to check the Certified PDF status of a PDF.

Duration: 10 minutes

This is a short introduction to the Action List Visualizer, which allows you to see what an Action List is doing when you create or edit it.

Duration: 5 minutes

This is a short demo on how to activate a PitStop Server subscription.

Duration: 1 minute

This movie has been designed to guide users through the proper use and management of the Enfocus subscription licensing.

Duration: 5 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar, given by Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager, on September 6th, 2023.

Topics:

• Understanding variables
• Checking books (covers/internal)
• Using the Design Layout Editor
• Useful Switch Apps for books

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar, given by Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager, and Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on June 7th, 2023.

Topic:

• Color management in PitStop Pro
• FastLane
• Using the Switch FastLane app

This is the recording of a webinar given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on December 7th, 2022.

Topic: What's new in PitStop 2022 update 1

Apart from compatibility with MacOS 13 (Ventura), this release brings: 

• A new PDF flattening library
• Compliance with the GWG 2022 specifications
• Improved PDF Overlay feature

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by John Dean, PitStop Product Manager, on October 5th, 2022.

Topic: Introduction for new users who just installed PitStop Pro

• Some settings:
• Overprint
• Copy/Paste
• Customize Quick Tools
• Standard Action Lists
  • Good place to start
• Standard Preflight Profiles
  • Built from industry standards
• Import/Export
  • Prepress First Aid Kit
• Make your own
  • Duplicate a standard
  • Start from scratch

Duration: 1 hour

• Transparency applied to a form
• Soft masks from MS Word
• Logo vs background

This is the recording of a webinar given by John Dean, Product Manager, on June 1st, 2022.

Topic: Automated Preflight

• What flows generally look like
• Where to get and put variables
• PitStop Server variables vs Switch metadata
• Get away from hot folders and use Switch Core

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by John Dean, Product Manager, on April 6th, 2022.

Topic: Using operators in Action Lists (AND, OR, NOT, ROLL)

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Freddy Pieters and Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architects, on February 2nd, 2022.

Topics:

• Layer handling:  
• Overlay PDF
• Create layers
• Split layers

• The PitStop Dashboard

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by John Dean, Product Manager, on December 1st, 2021.

Topics:

• New guy behind the wheel
• Greeking out text
• Adding visual trim guides to a softproof
• Splitting a page, but not in half

Duration: 35 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on October 6th, 2021.

Topics:

• Acrobat update issue
• Customer questions

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on August 4th, 2021.

Topics:

• Transparency flattening issue
• Calculate ink usage on a shape
• Convert spot colors, but not Pantones
• Map specific Pantone colors and convert to CMYK
• Check height of text
• Copy and paste position problem

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on June 2nd, 2021.

Topics:

• Varnishes
• Cutter guides (contours)
  Closing and compound paths
• Inserting pages

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on April 7th, 2021.

Topic:
Customer questions:

• Closing a path - why does it not work?
• Color looks flat - Black to 4 Color Black?
• Amount of ink?
• How to make a white underprint?
• Impose Readers pairs with Cover spread

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on January 6th, 2021.

Topics:

• PitStop 2020 update 1
• Customer case (cutter guides)

Duration: 35 min

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on November 4th, 2020.

Topics:

• Adding a postage paid automatically
• Making a Preflight Profile
• Optimize PDF Action List
• Check for empty pages Action List
• Check for single page image Action List (Photoshop PDF)

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on September 2nd, 2020.

Topic:

• Overprint

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on July 1st, 2020.

Topics:

• Conditional Color Remapping
• Advanced Color Conversion

PitStop 2020 features

• Find and replace text (variables)
• Add copied graphic - file path and variables
• Normalize Pantone names
• Check for corrupt images
• Check for number of images on a page
• Check for zero-width fill
• Flip selection
• Check for PDF 2.0

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on May 6th, 2020.

Topic: PitStop 2020

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on March 4th, 2020.

Topics: 

• Customer questions 
  (how to automating duplicating pages 1 and 2 to make 4 pages
  best way to reduce file size of a PDF file - Acrobat audit usage)
• New features in PitStop 2020 

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on October 2nd, 2019.

Main topics:

• Tiling patterns (continued)
• Can I split a page into number of tiles 3x3 total 9 tiles?
• From which menu can I set the orientation for all pages to landscape or portrait?
• How can I control the page reordering specially for left to right or right to left languages after splitting pages into half?

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 58 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on August 7th, 2019.

Main topics:

• Splitting pages/Splitting a 3pp Gatefold
• High Gloss Stock, 235% DeviceLink (indigo)
• Rotating and moving objects
• Length of Cutter/Dieline

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on May 8th, 2019.

Main topics:

• New ways to insert pages
• Splitting a gatefold job into single pages

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on March 6th, 2019.

Main topics:

• Show objects outside page box
  
• The Object Browser

All topics and video timeline

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on January 9th, 2019.

Main topics:

• OpenType SVG fonts in Adobe Illustrator/InDesign 2019
• InDesign 2019 PieceInfo

All topics and video timeline

This is the recording of a webinar given by Freddy Pieters, Product Support Manager, on November 7th, 2018.

Topics:

• Add copied graphics - Grommets
  
• Copy & paste
• User units - Page scaling factor
• Regular expressions

Agenda and video timeline

Duration: 43 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on August 8th, 2018.

Main topics:

• Customer questions
  
• Action List Visualizer
  

Agenda and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on May 2nd, 2018.

Main topic: PitStop 2018 functionality

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on March 7th, 2018.

Main topic: New features of PitStop 2018 (preview), such as the User Dashboard, the Action List Visualizer, new Pantone conversion Actions etc.

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on January 3rd, 2018.

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on October 4th, 2017.

Main topics:

• Varnish issue
  
• Clicks, handling of RGB Black and Crop Marks
  
• Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in PitStop Pro Preferences
  
• Alignment of multiple objects in PitStop Pro (Inspector)
  
• Move/Click/Drag resizing with handles
  
• Actions to enlarge and reduce page size
  
• Resizing a page box to a selection like a Cutter Guide/Dieline
  

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on August 2nd, 2017.

Main topics: 

• Splitting printer pair spreads to single pages in the correct order
• Error handling in Action Lists
• DeviceLink Profiles
• Standard Action Lists (Fonts/Images)

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on June 7th, 2017.

Main topics:  

• PitStop Development – Customer Engagement 
• Ghent Workgroup – Digital Large Format Preflight Profiles
• 3 Customer sample files and a number of Action Lists to discuss

All topics and video timeline

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on April 4th, 2017.

Main topics:

• GWG 2017 PDF Survey
  
• Overview of standard Devicelink profiles in PitStop 13.2
• Customer files: issues with removing separations, drop shadows when converting to CMYK etc. 

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Jeff Philips on February 1st, 2017.

Main topics:  

• Change of Activation Accounts to an Enfocus ID
• The Enfocus Support Portal
• Jeff reviews some recent support cases regarding Action Lists and how they were debugged

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on August 3rd, 2016.

Main topics: 

• Support process - Response times - Support Portal
• How to check you are on the latest PitStop version 

All topics and video timeline

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on June 1st, 2016.

Main topic: PitStop 13 update 2 - new features

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on April 6th, 2016.

Main topic: Regular Expressions in PitStop

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on February 3rd, 2016.

Main topic: Design Layouts

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on December 2nd, 2015.

Main topics:  

• Adding Document name to the job as text outside Bleed area.
  
• Removing headers and footers
  
• Adjusting the Page Boxes
• Using Smart Preflight to run different Action Lists depending on Document Size
  

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on August 5th, 2015.

Main topic: Add bleed functionality

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is a recording of a webinar given by Jeffrey J. Phillips (Senior Product Specialist) on June 3rd, 2015.

Main topic: Preflight in PitStop Pro

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on April 1st, 2015.

Main topics: 

• Page Boxes/Page Sizes
• Smart Preflight

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on February 4th, 2015.

Main topic: Action Lists in PitStop Pro (Andrew elaborates on topics discussed in the January workshop)

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

This is a recording of a webinar given by Jeffrey J. Phillips (Senior Product Specialist) on December 3rd, 2014.

Main topics: 

• Bleed in PitStop 12
• Adjusting the branding of a Preflight Report
• Workspace configuration

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

Dans cette formation, vous apprendrez comment installer PitStop Pro et comment activer une version d'évaluation gratuite.

Durée : 5 minutes

Dans cette formation, vous allez découvrir les présélections qui existent dans PitStop Pro. Ce module comprend cinq parties :

• Partie 1 - Introduction
• Partie 2 - Changements globaux
• Partie 3 - Utilisation d’un Script d’Actions
• Partie 4 - Création d’un Script d’Actions
• Partie 5 - QuickRuns
  

Durée : 20 minutes

Dans cette formation, vous allez apprendre comment activer und licence d'abonnement PitStop Pro.

Duration: 1 minute

Dans cette formation, vous allez apprendre les bases de PitStop Server. Ce module comprend sept parties :

• Partie 1 - Introduction
  
• Partie 2 - Installation et activation de PitStop Server
• Partie 3 - Interface utilisateur de PitStop Server
• Partie 4 - Configuration des dossiers actifs
• Partie 5 - Vérification des fichiers traités
• Partie 6 - Préférences de PitStop Server
• Partie 7 - Questionnaire

Durée : 30 minutes

Dans ce cours, vous allez apprendre comment ajouter un fond perdu avec PitStop Pro.

Durée: 5 minutes

Ce module de formation en ligne comprend deux parties :

• Partie 1 - Le jeu d’outils Modification PitStop
• Partie 2 - Exercice interactif

Durée: 15 minutes

Ce cours sur l'utilisation des zones de page comprend cinq parties:

• Introduction
• Visualisation des propriétés des zones de page
• Modifications à l'aide du panneau Zone de page PitStop
• Application d'une disposition de conception à la creation des zones de page
• Exercice

Durée: 20 minutes

Ce cours est une très courte introduction sur la façon de régler les problèmes de fond perdu avec PitStop Pro.

Durée: 5 minutes

Voici une brève introduction à la fonctionnalité Espaces de travail dans Pitstop Pro.

Durée: 5 minutes

Novedades en PitStop 2022:

• Soporte para PDF 2.0
  
• Mejoras para sangrado
  

Duración: 5 minutos

Este es un breve vídeo para demostrar cómo se puede activar una suscripción a PitStop Server.

Duración: 2 minutos

En este curso aprenderá los conceptos básicos de PitStop Pro.

Contenido:

• Activar una licencia permanente o por suscripción
  
• Explorar la interfaz de usuario
  
• Definir las preferencias de PitStop Pro

En este curso aprenderá sobre el control de calidad PDF (la aplicación de "Preflight") usando PitStop Pro.

Contenido:

• Introducción
  
• Perfiles Preflight
  
• Ejecutar una comprobación con Preflight
  
• Automatizar Preflight
  

Duración: 15 minutos

Este curso consiste en las partes siguientes:

• Introducción
  
• Configurar Workgroup Manager
  
• Configurar PitStop Pro para utilizar una licencia desde Workgroup Manager
  
• Examen
  

Duración: 15 minutos

Este módulo eLearning consiste en 2 partes:

• Parte 1 - El conjunto de herramientas Editar de PitStop
• Parte 2 - Ejercicio Interactivo

Duración: 15 minutos

En esta corta demostración aprenderá como crear tus propios accesos directos en PitStop Pro.

Duración: 1 minuto

En este curso aprenderás todo sobre el PDF certificado.

Duración: 10 minutos

Este curso es una breve introducción a la funcionalidad Áreas de Trabajo en PitStop Pro.

Duración: 5 minutos

Este módulo eLearning consiste en las partes siguientes:

• Parte 1 - Presentación
• Parte 2 - Versiones de PDF
• Parte 3 - Como determinar la versión de un PDF
• Parte 4 - Variantes del Estándar PDF
• Parte 5 - PDF/X 
• Parte 6 - PDF/A 

Duración: 10 minutos

Questa è una demo molto breve che spiega come attivare un abbonamento a PitStop Pro.

Duration: 2 minutes

In questo corso imparerete le basi di PitStop Pro.

Contenuto:

• Attivazione di una licenza permanente o abbonamento
  
• Esplorazione dell'interfaccia utente
  
• Impostare le preferenze di PitStop Pro

Durata: 20 minuti

In questo corso imparerete cosa c'è da sapere sul controllo di qualità dei PDF ("Preflighting") usando PitStop Pro.

Contenuto:

• Introduzione
  
• Profili di preflight
  
• Esecuzione di un controllo di preflight
  
• Automatizzazione del preflight
  

Durata: 15 minuti

Questo corso in e-learning spiega le basi di PitStop Server.

Contenuto:

• Introduzione
  
• Installazione e attivazione
  
• Interfaccia utente intuitiva
  
• Impostazione hot folder
  
• Controllo dei file elaborati
  
• Preferenze
  
• Quiz
  

Questo modulo di e-learning è costituito da 2 parti:

• Parte 1 - Le categorie dell’Ispettore
• Parte 2 - Esercizio interattivo di utilizzo dell’Ispettore

Durata: 15 minuti

Questo modulo di e-learning è costituito da 5 parti:

• Parte 1 - Cosa sono le Dimensioni Pagina
• Parte 2 - Visualizzare le proprietà della pagina
• Parte 3 - Effettuare modifiche usando il pannello PitStop Dimensione Pagina
• Parte 4 - Applicare un Layout Disegno per creare Dimensioni Pagina
• Parte 5 - Esercizio

Durata: 20 minuti

In questo breve corso imparerete come personalizzare i Report di Preflight.

Questo modulo di e-learning è costituito da 3 parti:

• Parte 1 - Informazioni sui Report di preflight 
• Parte 2 - Template di report 
• Parte 3 - Come creare i propri template di report

Durata: 15 minuti

Questo corso è una breve introduzione alla funzionalità dei Workspace in PitStop Pro.

Durata: 10 minuti

Questo corso prevede le seguenti parti:

• Parte 1 - Introduzione
• Parte 2 - Versioni PDF
• Parte 3 - Come determinare la versione di un PDF
• Parte 4 - Tipologie di Standard PDF
• Parte 5 - PDF/X 
• Parte 6 - PDF/A 

Durata: 10 minuti

The second Switch Getting Started module consists of the following parts:

• The Switch user interface
• Flows and flow elements
• Creating a flow

This fourth Switch module consists of the following parts:

• Embedded metadata and file information
  
• Variables
• Try it yourself (an interactive exercise)

In this course you'll learn ...

• How to get quick access to your test files
• How to clean up your flow in between test runs
• How to avoid that jobs get lost
• How to retry problem jobs
• ...

Duration: 15 minutes

This is the recording of an online training given by Freddy Pieters and Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architects.

Duration: 2h

In this mini-course, you'll learn about the Switch Web Portal features for administrators,
such as:

• Viewing flows and flow properties using the Flow viewer
• Adding annotations to flows
• Starting and stopping flows remotely
• Checking logins and system info
• Placing your company's logo on the Web Portal login page

Duration: 5 minutes

In this course we explain how you can easily move jobs within a flow, from one flow to another, or from one Switch Server to another. 

The tools explained in this course are:

• Pack job, Unpack job and Monitor confirmation (flow elements)
• Switch2Switch (free app)
• Portals (free app)

Duration: 10 minutes 

This is an introduction to two flow elements in the Communications category: FTP send and FTP receive.
FTP send enables uploading jobs to an FTP site, FTP receive enables downloading jobs from an FTP site to submit them to a Switch flow.

Duration: 10 minutes

This is a short introduction to the Switch Reporting Module.

Duration: 3:13

Note that there's also an eLearning course about the Reporting Module.

This is a short introduction to the Metadata tools in Switch:

• JSON pickup
• XML pickup
• JDF pickup
• XMP pickup
• Opaque pickup
  
• Export metadata
• XMP inject

"XSLT transform" is also explained in this course.

Duration: 15 minutes

This is short course about the Switch 'Sort files in job' flow element.

Duration: 5 minutes

This is a short introduction to Enfocus TestDrive, a tool that enables you to quickly compare the output of your Switch flows to a set of earlier created reference files. That way you can verify that:

• Your existing flows still work correctly after you have installed a new version of Switch, an app, a third-party application,…
• Your changes or extensions to a flow do not break any existing functionality.

Duration: 15 minutes

This is a short introduction to the Switch "Inject job" flow element.

Duration: 5 minutes

This product movie shows you how you can take advantage of the power of regular expressions in Switch.

Duration: 10 minutes

This movie explains the Database Module, which automates the communication between databases and Switch, without the need for additional scripting.

The movie was recorded with Switch version 12, but the content is still relevant if you're working with a newer version of Switch.

Duration: 6 minutes

This is a short introduction to the Switch "Execute command" flow element.

Duration: 5 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrea Mahoney on July 13th, 2016.

Andrea Mahoney is an Information Systems graduate with a database programming background.

Your Web to Print solution is up, running and successful. Now the next step, you want to automate the orders. In steps Enfocus Switch - in this case as a middleware solution. As an example: Andrea Mahoney uses Pageflex metadata to automate Switch workflows dealing with digital, offset, wide format, spot colors and outsourced items.  She covers database integration, preflight before data-merge using Pitstop Server and other nice workflow tricks. 

Duration: 50 minutes

Enfocus Switch in a nutshell.

Duration: 1:10

This movie is aimed at existing users of PitStop Server and at anyone interested in implementing a server-based Preflight solution. It's an introduction to PitStop2Switch, the bundled solution of Enfocus Switch and Enfocus PitStop Server.

Duration: 4:13

This is the recording of a workshop given by Davy Verstaen, Switch Product Manager, on February 8th, 2023.

Topic: Asset management in the cloud

Nowadays we are moving more and more from an on-premises way of storing our assets to a cloud service. But did you know that Switch already has a lot of apps on the Appstore that enables you to connect to these kinds of services. 

For example: 

• Dropbox 
• Google Drive 
• AWS S3 
• Wetransfer 
• Smash 

This is the recording of a workshop given by Laurent De Wilde, Solution Architect, on November 9th, 2022.

Topic: Hierarchy in apps, elements, scripting...

Job hierarchy has already been used in Switch for many years, but what can you do with this? In this workshop we show you the simplest way of using Job hierarchy using some of the default elements that come by default with Switch.
But we also highlight some other apps from our Appstore that use job hierarchy.

And we show you how you can use job hierarchy in combination with scripting.

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Davy Verstaen, Switch Product Manager, on October 12th, 2022.

Topic: How to revert back to a previous version or state of your job after it has gone through some processing steps.

For example, you have downsized a PDF file to be able to forward it to your customer for approval. Or you have manipulated the file to add or extract some information but you will need to revert to a previous version before you forward it to production. 

This is the recording of a workshop given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on August 10th, 2022.

Topics:

• Folder Apps:
  • Filepool Cleanup
  • Job Sorter and Spacer
  • Filetypes Counter
• Generic application
• Execute command

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar moderated by Angelo Manno, Global OEM & Strategic Accounts Manager on April 12th, 2023.

Topic: App Creators in the spotlight

• Bluewest, an Enfocus reselling partner in France, is an IT services company, providing training, production support, pre-press and IT integration, as well as the sales and deployment of collaborative solutions, focused on multi-channel digital distribution.
  Bluewest joined the Enfocus App Creation program in February 2021 and has since released 17 apps in the Enfocus Appstore, which you can check out here.
  
  Thomas Deschamps takes the opportunity to present some new apps that Bluewest is working on, and will show some nice use cases for apps that are already in the Appstore.
  
  
• Colorflow Solutions, an Enfocus reselling partner in South Africa, provides consultancy and solutions to the print and graphics industry while implementing products from a range of industry leading principle suppliers. With complete automation in mind, they continue to provide the highest level of service and expertise and look forward to connecting their solutions to the challenges found within a fast-moving industry. Colorflow Solutions joined the Enfocus App Creation program in May 2022 and has since released 4 apps in the Enfocus Appstore, which you can check out here.
  
  Carl Tiedt takes the opportunity to present the latest updates to some of theirs apps.

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Jan De Brabanter, product specialist, on May 11th, 2022.

Topic: Tips and tricks

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Davy Verstaen, product manager, on March 9th, 2022.

Topic: How to visualize the end result?

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Davy Verstaen, product manager, on January 12th, 2021.

Topic: The App creator program

• Introduction by Angelo Manno (Enfocus)
• GrafiStore apps (Jeordy Bouck and Germen Kroon)
• Apago apps (Dwight Kelly)

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on November 10th,  2021.

Topics:

• The new My Enfocus
• Variable types 
• Text vs Integer/Rational
• TextIndexed
• Variable manipulation
• Index / Separator / Prefix - Suffix
• Search
• Centralizing variables
• Private data
• Global data

This is the recording of a workshop given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on September 8th,  2021.

Topics:

• New app: Split PDF pages by Enfocus (based on a dynamic page range)
• Scripting: PitStop Server CLI on github.com 

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Toon Van Rossum, Product Manager, on June 23rd, 2020.

Exceptionally, this webinar is free for everyone!
(Normally the monthly workshops are reserved for maintenance users/subscribers)

Topic: Switch 2020 Spring 

• Flow viewer in the Web Portal (for admins) 
• Scripting: support for Node.js

Duration: 1 hour