Still evaluating Pitstop Server...
Is the hot folder concept only designed for an environment where you are printing a simple range of products?
For example, if I want to check that the supplied file has specific dimensions, I can't pass this data to Pitstop Server in any way at all. I've got to set up different hot folders for products with different dimensions and write an action list for that hot folder. Likewise I can't tell Pitstop Server the target CMYK profile, or the TAC, so have to create still more hotfolders, and so on.
It will be pretty straightforward to write a (shell) script to read the job information that we have associated with a specific PDF and so drop it into the right hot folder input folder, so that shouldn't be a problem. But we're left with a *lot* of hot folders and action lists to manage.
Am I looking at this the wrong way?
Is Pitstop Server only really designed for "part" checking a PDF, i.e. in reality most users will do more manual checks before manually passing the file on for further processing & scheduling? If so, what "automateable" preflight server product should I be looking at to in a multi-vendor, mixed digital/litho/large format environment?
Is the hot folder concept only designed for an environment where you are printing a simple range of products?
For example, if I want to check that the supplied file has specific dimensions, I can't pass this data to Pitstop Server in any way at all. I've got to set up different hot folders for products with different dimensions and write an action list for that hot folder. Likewise I can't tell Pitstop Server the target CMYK profile, or the TAC, so have to create still more hotfolders, and so on.
It will be pretty straightforward to write a (shell) script to read the job information that we have associated with a specific PDF and so drop it into the right hot folder input folder, so that shouldn't be a problem. But we're left with a *lot* of hot folders and action lists to manage.
Am I looking at this the wrong way?
Is Pitstop Server only really designed for "part" checking a PDF, i.e. in reality most users will do more manual checks before manually passing the file on for further processing & scheduling? If so, what "automateable" preflight server product should I be looking at to in a multi-vendor, mixed digital/litho/large format environment?