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 | | From: | Rioduo | | Subject: | PitStop | | Date: | 22 Jan 2005 04:46:19 -0800 |
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 | Can anyone explain the difference between PitStop Pro & PitStop server?
I have a single copy of PitStop Pro 6.?. We are going to CTP in the
next couple of months and have been advised to install PitStop server.
Would it be better to invest in individual copies of Pro? My
understanding is that server does not have all the functionality of
Pro?
Our main use is color correction, but we are also upgrading to Acrobat
6 pro, so is this redundant? Yes I know Acrobat 7 has been released,
but our IT director doesn't want to 'rush' into new releases! That's
out of my hands.
By way of a short explanation, no one in our company has had any
experience with PitStop, Acrobat 6 or 7, OSX (any version), Quark 6.
And yet, that's where my department is going. No training in view, just
what I can figure out. I know PitStop is a powerful tool, I've had to
just jump in & figure out how to use it, I know there's a lot more it
can do. But without training, I've had to just slug it out with the
software on my on.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
Jackie
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| | From: | John Doherty | | Subject: | Re: PitStop | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:48:00 -0600 |
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| In article <1106397979.327901.266360@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
Rioduo wrote:
> Can anyone explain the difference between PitStop Pro & PitStop
> server?
Sure. PitStop Pro is a plug-in for Acrobat, and since you say you have
it, I guess you're already at least somewhat familiar with it.
PitStop Server is a standalone application that lets you create queues
that are associated with hot folders. Each queue can have one profile
associated with it, against which PDF files are checked, and each
queue can also have multiple action lists, which are run on each PDF
file that passes through the queue.
> I have a single copy of PitStop Pro 6.?. We are going to CTP
> in the next couple of months and have been advised to install
> PitStop server. Would it be better to invest in individual copies of
> Pro? My understanding is that server does not have all the
> functionality of Pro?
You can use PitStop Server to create profiles but you cannot create
action lists, so for practical purposes you need at least one copy of
the plug-in in order to make full use of the server. I don't remember
if the license for the server includes a license for the plug-in or
not, but I don't think so.
You can't do anything with the server that you can't do with the
plug-in in terms of running action lists or using profiles, but it
does let people who don't have the plug-in use it. Also, it gives you
one centralized place to maintain profiles and action lists, so you
don't have to worry about keeping versions of them scattered on a
bunch of different machines in sync with one another and up to date.
If you decide to buy PitStop Server, I would STRONGLY recommend trying
it out on both a Mac and a Windows machine before making a commitment
to using it on a Mac. In my experience, it runs much, much better on
Windows. In fact, when I first tried it, I found the Mac version to
work so badly and slowly as to be pretty much useless. It runs pretty
well on Windows 2000, though.
> Our main use is color correction, but we are also upgrading to
> Acrobat 6 pro, so is this redundant?
You can do a lot of useful things with PitStop that you can't do with
Acrobat 6.
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| | From: | René Frej Nielsen | | Subject: | Re: PitStop | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:52:35 +0100 |
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| Rioduo wrote:
> Can anyone explain the difference between PitStop Pro & PitStop server?
> I have a single copy of PitStop Pro 6.?. We are going to CTP in the
> next couple of months and have been advised to install PitStop server.
> Would it be better to invest in individual copies of Pro? My
> understanding is that server does not have all the functionality of
> Pro?
Pitstop Server is for automatic handling of PDF-files that you put
into dropfolders. It uses profiles that you create using Pitstop
Professional.
I don't know if there's a license for Pistop Professional included
when you buy Pitstop Server, but I can't see how you could live
without it.
> Our main use is color correction, but we are also upgrading to Acrobat
> 6 pro, so is this redundant? Yes I know Acrobat 7 has been released,
> but our IT director doesn't want to 'rush' into new releases! That's
> out of my hands.
That's a good idea, especially since no plugins for Acrobat <7 will
work in version 7. They all have to be updated, including Pistop
Professional.
> By way of a short explanation, no one in our company has had any
> experience with PitStop, Acrobat 6 or 7, OSX (any version), Quark 6.
> And yet, that's where my department is going. No training in view, just
> what I can figure out. I know PitStop is a powerful tool, I've had to
> just jump in & figure out how to use it, I know there's a lot more it
> can do. But without training, I've had to just slug it out with the
> software on my on.
I really hope that you keep you current equipment as a backup, because
if none of you have any OS X experience, that alone could create chaos
at your place. There's several things that you have to look out for if
you don't want to get into trouble. QuarkXPress 6.x is another
challenge too, because it's far from perfect and it sure have it's own
quirks!
Acrobat 6 is fine, but quite slow. I have tried Acrobat 7 which starts
up very fast (Acrobat 6 takes ages) but I haven't worked enough with it
to know if it's also faster internally.
Pitstop Professional works on the Mac, but the interface is bad and
there's several bugs that annoys me a lot. The Windows version is
unfortunately much better in terms of "feeling".
--
Mvh.
René Frej Nielsen - Read my blog at http://blog.rfn.dk
PowerMac G4 Dual 867 MHz Verax | iBook G4 12" 1 GHz Combo/AE/BT
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| | From: | Jono Moore | | Subject: | Re: PitStop | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:53:49 GMT |
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| René Frej Nielsen wrote:
> Pitstop Professional works on the Mac, but the interface is bad and
> there's several bugs that annoys me a lot. The Windows version is
> unfortunately much better in terms of "feeling".
I've found the same thing. There seem to be some update problems in the
gui on the Mac - that's what I've mostly notice, and some slowdowns that
seem Pitstop relate.
....Jono
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| | From: | Ted | | Subject: | Re: PitStop | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:00:22 -0500 |
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> Can anyone explain the difference between PitStop Pro & PitStop server?
> I have a single copy of PitStop Pro 6.?. We are going to CTP in the
> next couple of months and have been advised to install PitStop server.
> Would it be better to invest in individual copies of Pro? My
> understanding is that server does not have all the functionality of
> Pro?
> Our main use is color correction, but we are also upgrading to Acrobat
> 6 pro, so is this redundant? Yes I know Acrobat 7 has been released,
> but our IT director doesn't want to 'rush' into new releases! That's
> out of my hands.
> By way of a short explanation, no one in our company has had any
> experience with PitStop, Acrobat 6 or 7, OSX (any version), Quark 6.
> And yet, that's where my department is going. No training in view, just
> what I can figure out. I know PitStop is a powerful tool, I've had to
> just jump in & figure out how to use it, I know there's a lot more it
> can do. But without training, I've had to just slug it out with the
> software on my on.
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
> Jackie
>
Hi, I just have the workstation version of Pitstop Pro, so I don't know
about the server. However, Pitstop is powerful but not all that hard to
learn. You don't need training at least most people I know didn't.
Ted
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