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I even wrote a feature request for that, mind you it was for a specific tool, not a menu item.
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- Wed Apr 13, 2022 11:26 am
- Forum: PitStop Pro
- Topic: Path edition: how to add direction handles to a path point?
- Replies: 4
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- Sun Apr 10, 2022 2:38 pm
- Forum: PitStop Pro
- Topic: Path edition: how to add direction handles to a path point?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5991
Re: Path edition: how to add direction handles to a path point?
It's not possible in PitStop.
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 11:57 am
- Forum: PitStop Pro
- Topic: Remove 4 color process for 5 color pdf
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4234
Re: Remove 4 color process for 5 color pdf
So if we back up a bit, the end goal is to get a print of the Pantone 286 separation out of a color printer in the (nearish) correct blue color. But only the Spot color, no CMYK. The easiest way I can think of is to convert the CMYK to white via color curves or mapping (so you get the knockout hole)...
- Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:19 am
- Forum: PitStop Pro
- Topic: Autotrapping
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4225
Re: Autotrapping
Hi Angela, hope you are well. There is no trapping in PitStop, or many other applications for that matter. The only thing you can do it add overprint strokes, or maybe use some transparency. Regarding Action Lists, you might be able to do something with Black overprint, but beyond that it gets very ...
- Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:09 pm
- Forum: Action Lists
- Topic: Adobe Illustrator Stroke Alignment Correction
- Replies: 11
- Views: 47736
- Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:49 am
- Forum: Action Lists
- Topic: Adobe Illustrator Stroke Alignment Correction
- Replies: 11
- Views: 47736
Re: Adobe Illustrator Stroke Alignment Correction
yep, see second post in the thread.
So the Action List would look something like.
Select Spot Color by name from list
'Select closed paths
AND
Log absence of selection.
So the Action List would look something like.
Select Spot Color by name from list
'Select closed paths
AND
Log absence of selection.
- Mon Mar 07, 2022 5:37 pm
- Forum: Action Lists
- Topic: Adobe Illustrator Stroke Alignment Correction
- Replies: 11
- Views: 47736
Re: Adobe Illustrator Stroke Alignment Correction
Yep, it's not a stroke.
It's two paths defining a shape that is filled.
If you grab one of the paths and move it you will see what I mean (see screenshot)
What kind of edits are you hoping to make to this?
It's two paths defining a shape that is filled.
If you grab one of the paths and move it you will see what I mean (see screenshot)
What kind of edits are you hoping to make to this?
- Mon Mar 07, 2022 1:44 am
- Forum: Action Lists
- Topic: Adobe Illustrator Stroke Alignment Correction
- Replies: 11
- Views: 47736
Re: Adobe Illustrator Stroke Alignment Correction
The issue is Pitstop is still actually detecting a stroke present for when it's either left or right-aligned. But when you open the pitstop inspector and select the stroke it shows it as filled.
Can you show the 'stroke' in the Inspector?
What you are selecting there is just the 'Select Line Art'
Can you show the 'stroke' in the Inspector?
What you are selecting there is just the 'Select Line Art'
- Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:26 am
- Forum: Action Lists
- Topic: Adobe Illustrator Stroke Alignment Correction
- Replies: 11
- Views: 47736
Re: Adobe Illustrator Stroke Alignment Correction
The problem here is that the PDF specification only allows strokes to be centred. That's probably why you are getting fills when you export them from Illustrator, there's no other way to create the correct shape otherwise when the PDF is created. I'm not sure that this can be detected or fixed. But ...
- Sat Feb 19, 2022 3:20 pm
- Forum: PitStop Pro
- Topic: Spot colors from imported color library not selectable
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5389
Re: Spot colors from imported color library not selectable
They are not Spot Color Swatches. If you import them into Indesign they look like this.
So they are just regular RGB colors but associated with a Swatch name.
So they are just regular RGB colors but associated with a Swatch name.
- Tue Jan 11, 2022 11:59 pm
- Forum: PDF Creation
- Topic: Split PDF to color separations
- Replies: 14
- Views: 367010
Re: Split PDF to color separations
Hi Magnus The GWG Test Suite is not a good test for this. That file is built with special constructions, some of it hand coded. It's sole purpose is to test PDF/X-4 compatibility for rips and software, and identify any problem PDF constructions. It's useless for anything else. regards abc (GWG Techn...
- Sat Nov 13, 2021 2:35 pm
- Forum: Action Lists
- Topic: Maintain layers in Illustrator.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5667
Re: Maintain layers in Illustrator.
What he said, but a bit more understanding. When you save a PDF from Illustrator with the option to go back to illustrator you get a kind of hybrid PDF file. It actually has two files in it, the .ai file and the PDF. There is a little piece of code called 'PieceInfo' that ensures these two files are...
- Wed Nov 10, 2021 10:30 am
- Forum: Action Lists
- Topic: Step and Repeat Action
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7650
Re: Step and Repeat Action
It's an Action, not an Action List
So you would need to make an Action to use it.
I covered it a bit in the November PitStop workshop, so you might want to look at that.
https://learning.enfocus.com/pluginfile ... 202021.mp4
So you would need to make an Action to use it.
I covered it a bit in the November PitStop workshop, so you might want to look at that.
https://learning.enfocus.com/pluginfile ... 202021.mp4
- Sat Nov 06, 2021 2:27 pm
- Forum: Action Lists
- Topic: How to remove Form?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 25792
Re: How to remove Form?
What you could try, and I would not normally say this but it might work in this case, is save the PDF as Postscript and re-distill it to PDF. Forms don't exist in postscript, and if you then save as a low PDF version, you might be able to eliminate them. I wouldn't suggest this normally, but as it's...
- Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:25 am
- Forum: PitStop Pro
- Topic: page extraction loses ICC profile
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3617
Re: page extraction loses ICC profile
You mean the profile is used as an Output Intent Robin?
BTW there is no 'page extraction' feature in PitStop, so could it be that's an Acrobat function?
BTW there is no 'page extraction' feature in PitStop, so could it be that's an Acrobat function?