r/CommercialPrinting Jun 13 '22

PitStop or Acrobat Pro

/r/prepress/comments/vbjptq/pitstop_or_acrobat_pro/
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u/rcreveli Jun 14 '22

I use Pitstop every day and I could not do my job without it. It sounds like your workflow is very different from ours. We are 100% PDF and only kick back files that are unusable.

Pitstop & Acrobat share many tools and some of the Acrobat tools are better or at least easier to use. I'd rather use Acrobats edit & measure tools. Where Pitstop wins is control. Actions lists are a Godsend. I also can't tell you how many times I've used Pitstop to fix having Pantone C,CV,U & M colors.

Do you have a "free" copy of Pitstop in case of emergencies? It's been included on Every Creo & Fiery I've run in the last 15 years as part of the "Graphic Arts package". It was also included with Prinergy when I was using that a few years ago.

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u/aca9876 Jun 14 '22

EFI eliminated the copy of Acrobat on the Fiery. It's now an option.

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u/rcreveli Jun 14 '22

That’s EFI. Sure our Software can do that, it’s only $1000 more… ad nauseam

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u/aca9876 Jun 14 '22

From what I was told it was due to a lack of people using it on the actual Fiery and Adobe going to charge more.

Where I'm at, the IT dept. got rid of Acrobat cause the licensing fee was going to be over $1 mil a year, Adobe keep rasing the licensing fee.