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Agreed, Layer Comps are a no brainer (perhaps the client saved them into the PSD and you will get a nice surprise, yeah right) and Photoshop ships with an Export option to save out Layer Comps to PDF or other file types. Another option would be to take a History snapshot of each layer setup as...

I’m pretty sure that you have to update to the latest license (a good thing), however you can then download an older version installer for your OS and Acrobat if you really need to. https://www.enfocus.com/en/support/system-requirements/pitstop-pro-system-requirements (also look at previous...

Kamoula, in my opinion, your production experience and knowledge and what you can bring to the table about estimating is far more critical than having experience and knowledge in one or more software packages – without having any practical production experience. Not having estimating experience...

Is there a contract or guarantee for a set period for the proofing/work? If not and if this suddenly went sour, would you have other uses for the proofing setup? You have a rough budget for the hardware and possibly for software… (depending on the solution, you may also need to factor in the...

I’m on 2017, however this was available in earlier versions, you just had to import a Lab based spot colour library. Now later versions of PitStop ship with Lab based library files. You can see in my screenshot that the destination library’s alternate values are Lab based. I’ll try to dig up an...

Schnitzel, a simple remap should do it. Stephen Marsh

Which is of course not true. GMG’s main competitor, CGS also have a spectral data based system for measuring and predicting spot colour overprinting behaviour. This is available as a stand alone toolset and is also leveraged in products such as CGS ORIS Color Tuner and ORIS Flex Pack for inkjet...

Do you have an account at impactcad.net ? My best advice is to contact Arden Software directly or an authorised reseller. Stephen Marsh

Through the server side Prinergy administration software (not Workshop), sorry I can’t remember all the names etc. I don’t use Prinergy very often. There are 4 levels of reset, level 1 is the safest as it only applies to processing queues (but double check what the wording says next to the reset...

If all else fails, perhaps try a Level 1 reset on the Prinergy Server. Stephen Marsh

If it is just about softproofing, do you really need an N-Colour profile? Is the source artwork previously separated into N-channels, or is it just RGB? When one profiles an inkjet, it may contain various inks, beyond just CMYK. However an RGB or CMYK profile is generated, which describes all...

In v1.1.6 I am not having any luck with the “merge to…” feature mapping a split/separated colour to another colour (say first splitting to 4 spots, then manually merging down to 2 spots)… Tried in both composite and separated. Looking forward to the next version incorporating previous feedback...

My demonstration demonstrates many things! :] Stephen Marsh

Here are 4 different CMYK profiles assigned to the same 100c100m source value. One is for a common press condition, Coated paper. The L*a*b* numbers show that this is a blueish purple, however it could be argued as just being “purple” by most human observers. One is for an inkjet printer, an...

How do I explain to a client that a CMYK value is not an actual color? https://printplanet.com/forum/prepre...n-actual-color Stephen Marsh

Looks like you need that action step on/off checkbox or debug mode feature to see where it is falling over (if you did not build/test incrementally). https://printplanet.com/forum/prepress-and-workflow/enfocus/265320-is-there-a-way-to-pause-stop-a-pitstop-action-list. Good luck! Stephen Marsh

Select by object properties, such as: #1 should be easy enough, select by stroke and or fill colours and colour mode + select by stroke weight #2 is a little harder… the fill colour is easy enough, however a rectangle does not have a weight, it has a physical width… Do you have an action for...

Thank you Schmaltzkop, I must have been having a bad day! :] I like to help, however it can be annoying when relying on presented information or files if the information is wrong. GIGO and all that. I go through this enough in my paying job! The sample PDF file shows these bars as...

Not that I am aware of… I floated the idea of having an enable/disable checkbox next to each action step similar to Adobe actions, however if I remember other users did not think that this was a good idea and that maintaining the status quo was preferable (duplicating the .eal, deleting steps...

I did mention that it was manual! Of course, I did try recording only the width change using the Inspector before I floated the suggestion of doing the size change manually from the auto selection… Back in post #4 I noted and asked you: ‘Your file has page content “all over the place”… Will...