PitStop workshops

This is the recording of a webinar given by Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager, on October 2nd, 2024.

Topics:

• Bounding boxes
• Sequential page numbering
• Wide format (Preflight/Preparation)
• Regular expressions
• Moving objects
• Custom Tools
• Q/A

Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a workshop given by Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager, and Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on July 10th, 2024.

Topic: PitStop 24.07:

• Resource syncing
• Object browser ordering
• PS TIFF Export
• Fonts Improvements
• DeviceN Color Conversion

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 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 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

• Looking back at hero features from past versions
  
• Using Standard resources to ease your onboarding
  
• Fixing typical pain-points in Digital Cutting with PitStop
  

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 Loïc Aigon, PitStop Product Manager, on May 3rd 2023.

Topic: PitStop 2023

New Features

• Log as Info
• JSON Reports
• Select Texts with RegEx
• Log Texts properties
• Variable Sets improvements
• FastLane

Other topics

• Speed Improvements
• Default CMM
• Security
• Requirements
• Bug Fixes

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 Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on November 2nd, 2022.

Topic: Color management

• Color management engine support
• Color spaces
• ICC tagging
• Output intents
• Blending color spaces
• Black point compensation
• Device links

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

This is the recording of a webinar given by John Dean, PitStop Product Manager, on September 7th, 2022.

Topics: Wide Format

• Finishing concerns (grommets, hems, pockets)
• Effective resolution
• Page scaling factor
• Paths (cut lines, close paths, trace paths)
• Hard proofs (virtual mockups)

Duration: 50 minutes

• 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 July 6th, 2022.

Topics:

• PitStop 2022 Hotfix release
• Strange behavior when adding bleed

Duration: 1 hour

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 May 4th, 2022.

Topic: Smart Preflight

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 John Dean, Product Manager, on March 2nd, 2022.

Topic: New features of PitStop 2022 (preview)

Duration: 45 mins

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 January 5th, 2022.

Topics:

• Imposition
• Reordering pages
• Create a simple dieline
• Duplicate pages

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 November 3rd, 2021.

Topics:

• Workshop Review
• PitStop 2021 update 1
• Customer files
• Resources and links
• Top 10 Actions

Duration: 1 hour

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 September 1st, 2021.

Topics:

• Adding a spine to an imposed cover
• Using masks
• User units (page scaling) explained

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 July 7th, 2021.

Topic: Ink coverage (TAC/TIC) and ink usage

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 Laurent De Wilde, Solutions Architect, on May 5th, 2021.

Topic: Combination of PitStop Server and Switch Core Engine, some automation basics and tips and tricks

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 February 3rd, 2021.

Topics:

• Manual step and repeat
• Delete and add graphics
• Creating dielines and cutter guides by tracing
• PDF Review Module 02 (sneak peek)

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 December 2nd, 2020.

Topics:

• PitStop 2020 update 1
• PDF/X-6

All topics and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

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)

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on October 7th, 2020.

Topics:

• Intelligently splitting pages
• Removing empty forms
• Dense ink issues on a laser cutter
• User units

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Duration: 1 hour

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

Topic:

• Overprint

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on August 5th, 2020.

Topic:

• Color management

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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

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on June 3rd, 2020.

Topics:

• Issue with Acrobat update on Windows 10
• Customer case - Roll fold to single panels to spread

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

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Duration: 1 hour

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

Topic: Transparency

• History of transparency
• Blend modes
• Blend spaces
• Groups
• Flattening
• Benefits of live transparency
• Preflight of transparency

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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 

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on Feb 5th, 2020.

Topic: Overprint 

Files used during this workshop

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Duration: 30 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on December 4th, 2019.

Main topic: Action Lists (Part 1)

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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?

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Duration: 58 minutes

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on September 4th, 2019.

Main topics: 

• Tiling patterns
• Pantone colors (remapping, creating and other functionality)

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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

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Freddy Pieters, Solution Architect, on July 3rd, 2019.

Topics:

• Introduction (00:00-03:30)
• Design Layouts (03:30-11:30)
• Workspaces (11:30-16:00)
• Shortcuts (16:00-22:00)
• Importing special colors (22:00-end)

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Duration: 34 minutes

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

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on April 3rd, 2019.

Main topics:

• PitStop 2019 release: 
• PitStop Server Dashboard
• Improvements so Insert Pages
• Improvements to Number of Separations Check
• Adding Corners to Rectangles and Page Boxes
• Split Action List
• Watermarks and adding content in general

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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

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

Main topics:

• OpenType SVG fonts update
  
• Selecting black-and-white images for special handling
• CSR Preflight Profile

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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

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This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on December 5th, 2018.

Main topics:

• PitStop analytics
• Clean up black
• Converting to black and white (grayscale)
• Black and white (minimum clicks for digital)
• Bleed revisited
• Large format pockets
• Two-sided banners

Agenda and video timeline

Duration: 1 hour

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 Freddy Pieters, Product Support Manager, on October 3rd, 2018.

Topics:

• PDF Layers
  
• Split layers app
• Resize spine app
• PitStop Server v3 XML Reports

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Duration: 50 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 Jonas Yde, Support Engineer, on June 7, 2018.

Main topic: Action Lists

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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

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Jonas Yde, Software Support Engineer, on April 4th, 2018.

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Action Lists used during this workshop

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 February 7th, 2018.

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 Jeff Philips, on November 1st, 2017.
Jeff Phillips is responsible for education, training and support of Enfocus products for North American customers.

Topic: Working with Fonts

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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 September 6th, 2017.

Action List used in this webinar

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)

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on July 5th, 2017.

Main topic: Latest standards

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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

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This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on May 3rd, 2017

Main topic:  PDF Geomapper technology released with PitStop 2017

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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 Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on March 1st, 2017.

Main topics:  Color & DeviceLink Profiles

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Presentation and files 

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

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Duration: 1 hour

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

Main topics:  

• Bleed revisited
  
• Standard Action Lists discussed
  
• Color Action Lists

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on November 2nd 2016.

Main topic: Masterclass in the image toning/retouching capabilities within PitStop

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on September 7th, 2016.

Main topics: standard Action Lists and Page Boxes 

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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 

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

Main topic: Getting Started with PitStop Server

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Duration: 1 hour

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

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on May 4th, 2016

Main topics: 

• Finding out if a certain text phrase or a certain color is in or not in a PDF
• Making masks in PitStop

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Action List for 2-color job

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

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on March 2nd, 2016.

Main topics:

• Customer file analysis - text dropping off when output/pages dropping off when imposed and output
• Preflight Restrictions - practical demos on how Preflight Restrictions can be used

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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

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on January 16th, 2016.

Main topic: Spot Colors

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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
  

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Duration: 1 hour

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

Main topic: Overprint

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Duration: 1 hour

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

Main topic: PDF Standards

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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

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Duration: 1 hour

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

Main topic: Getting Started with PitStop Pro (Acrobat XI/DC).

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Basic Preflight Profile and Acrobat DC PitStop Custom Tool Set

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

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Duration: 1 hour

This is a recording of a webinar given by Jeffrey J. Phillips (Senior Product Specialist) on May 6th, 2015.

Main topic: Working with selections and page boxes

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Duration: 1.5 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

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Duration: 1 hour

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

Main topic: Color Management in PitStop

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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)

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Duration: 1 hour

This is a recording of a webinar given by Jeffrey J. Phillips (Senior Product Specialist) on January 7th, 2015.

Main topic: Action Lists in PitStop Pro

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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

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Duration: 1 hour

This is the recording of a webinar given by Andrew Bailes-Collins, Senior Product Manager, on November 5th, 2014.

Main topics: 

• PitStop 12 update 3 features
• Flatten a PDF with transparency
• Ink coverage, ink usage

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Duration: 1 hour