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Automation From File Input To Output With The Use Of Enfocus SwitchClient Module

June 12, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Attaching job ticket information to print jobs doesn’t always require XML sidecar files, databases or other tools. In this article, we’ll show you a fast and powerful method for getting up and running with job ticket information that is used to route and change PDF files via a series of hugely time-saving automated steps.

Enfocus Switch can help you create job ticket information for each job you process, and help you automate your job routing, preflighting, processing, from input to output.

Enfocus Switch is compatible with Mac and Windows, and with its user-friendly “workflow” builder, it will take you less than 30 minutes to create the following automation flow, giving you extra time to focus on new prospects and other work.

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Unarchiving And Sorting Files Automatically With Enfocus Switch

May 22, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Are you receiving single files, folders and zip files? Are you currently downloading, unarchiving the zip files and saving them in different locations depending on their file type or size? Do you need to process the file types within the zip files differently?

Enfocus Switch can do just that—it makes it easy to automatically unarchive and route files to different locations and processes.

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Adding Contours To Artwork In Your Enfocus Switch Workflow

May 8, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Are you dealing with stickers and you are creating a contour around the stickers? Are you adding contours to your artwork in general?

Enfocus Switch 2018 and PitStop Server 2018 can automate this arduous task. They make it easy to automatically add contours to your artwork.

Enfocus PitStop Pro and PitStop Server are compatible with Mac and Windows and they both include the industry-standard Enfocus preflight engine, which checks all aspects of your PDF files like detecting missing fonts, reporting incorrect colors and objects without bleed, to name a few examples.

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How Can I Change Rich or CMYK Black to True Black in PDF Files?

May 1, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

It’s a common scenario in the print publishing industry: you have PDF files with rich black objects (CMYK – 50, 50, 50, 100 or 70, 35, 40, 100 or 35, 60, 60, 100) and you need to convert those objects to 100K.

Enfocus PitStop Pro can do this for you. It makes selecting rich black objects and changing them to true black easy!

PitStop Pro is a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional and it is compatible with Mac and Windows. With PitStop Pr0 you can convert any PDF to an iPad-ready PDF, a print-ready PDF, or an optimized PDF for client approval.

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Automatically Creating Personalized PDF Files With Data From a Spreadsheet

April 24, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Are you creating PDF files with personalized information from a spreadsheet or database? For example, PDFs with a different name and picture for each student in a yearbook? More generally, are you interested in Variable Data Printing (VDP)?

Enfocus Switch can automate VDP for you. It makes it easy to automatically create PDF files with personalized information!

Duplicating Single Page PDF Files X Amount Of Times Automatically

March 29, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Do you require different amounts of duplicate pages depending on your output? Or do you require a different amounts of duplicates depending on your output?

Enfocus Switch can do just that—it makes it easy to automatically create duplicate versions of your single page PDF file!

Enfocus Switch is compatible with Mac and Windows, and with its user friendly “workflow” builder, it will take you less than 30 minutes to create the following automation flow, giving you extra time to focus on new prospects and other work.

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Automating E-mail Notifications With Enfocus Switch

March 12, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Are you currently sending out emails manually to let your customers know that you have received their file? Do you have an FTP or Network folder where files are dropped into folders that have customer’s names?

Enfocus Switch makes it easy to automate sending those email notifications.

Enfocus Switch is compatible with Mac and Windows, and with its user friendly “workflow” builder, it will take you less than 30 minutes to create an automated email flow, giving you extra time to focus on new prospects and other work.

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Are You Looking For A Smarter Way to Build Your Enfocus Switch Workflow?

February 19, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Do you have a Enfocus Switch workflow that looks like a circus tent or flying saucer due to so many options? Do you wonder if there might be a way to use variables or smart preflight to simplify things? Are you looking for a smarter way to build your Enfocus Switch workflow?

The XChange team can guide you in this process. We can take a look at your current workflow and assist you in making your workflows smarter.

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Automatically Download Files from a URL Address in Your Email

February 6, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Do you receive a lot of emails that contain an URL address to download a file? Are you currently going through every email, clicking on the link and picking a location to save the file? Wouldn’t it be great if you could automate that process and have your files directly saved into a folder on your system without any clicks?

Enfocus Switch can do just that—it makes it easy to automatically download files from a URL address in your email!

Enfocus Switch is compatible with Mac and Windows, and with its user friendly “workflow” builder, it will take you less than 30 minutes to create an automation flow to grab files from links, giving you extra time to focus on new prospects and other work.

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Preflight only required content in PDF files using Enfocus PDF Geomapper technology

January 24, 2018 by Natacha De Kegel Leave a Comment

Many times, your PDF Preflighting results show objects that are not visible. The invisible objects will not even show up when printing the file. What if you had the option to ignore that type of objects during preflight and preflight only the necessary content of your PDF file?

With Enfocus PitStop Pro and PitStop Server 2017, you can setup your profiles to preflight and distinguish objects that are needed to render or print a file and ignore those that are not. It is called the PDF Geomapper technology from Enfocus.
Enfocus PitStop Pro and PitStop Server both include the industry-standard Enfocus preflight engine, which checks all aspects of your PDF files like detecting missing fonts, reporting incorrect colors and objects without bleed, to name a few examples.

With Action Lists you can solve specific issues by remapping colors, embedding fonts, adding page numbers and more. PitStop Pro and PitStop Server are both Mac and Windows compatible.

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