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by nathan_ed1
Wed Jun 19, 2024 1:11 am
Forum: Color Management
Topic: Noticibly more noise when converting using PitStop Server Vs PitStop Pro
Replies: 7
Views: 22609

Re: Noticibly more noise when converting using PitStop Server Vs PitStop Pro

Interesting indeed, your settings does looks fine but without the action list it's hard to know what's going on. True. With each method using the same Action list, I didn't think it mattered too much. Here is a link off to it: https://ed1-public-temp.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/Convert+All+Images+to...
by nathan_ed1
Tue Jun 18, 2024 10:38 pm
Forum: Color Management
Topic: Noticibly more noise when converting using PitStop Server Vs PitStop Pro
Replies: 7
Views: 22609

Re: Noticibly more noise when converting using PitStop Server Vs PitStop Pro

Interesting one. As Freddy said, this looks like JPEG artifacts. Maybe you can share the Switch flow so I can have a look at your settings? I'll share the test flow with settings below, but I think I've nailed this down to how the server version and plugin version handle decompression of the image ...
by nathan_ed1
Mon Jun 17, 2024 9:14 pm
Forum: Color Management
Topic: Noticibly more noise when converting using PitStop Server Vs PitStop Pro
Replies: 7
Views: 22609

Re: Noticibly more noise when converting using PitStop Server Vs PitStop Pro

The artifacts you are getting are typically the result of a JPEG compression, not of a color management setting. Check if the compression settings in Pro and Server are the same, especially if the quality settings are the same. You can also check that in the Inspector. That does makes sense to me, ...
by nathan_ed1
Thu Jun 13, 2024 7:19 pm
Forum: Color Management
Topic: Noticibly more noise when converting using PitStop Server Vs PitStop Pro
Replies: 7
Views: 22609

Noticibly more noise when converting using PitStop Server Vs PitStop Pro

I have a bit of a strange one here, that I'm hoping someone has run across before and has a solution to When converting a PDF to CMYK color space, I'm getting significantly more artifacts / blocky in the resulting images if the PDF has gone through the PitStop Server / Switch vs if I use the same Ac...
by nathan_ed1
Fri Jun 17, 2022 1:55 am
Forum: Switch
Topic: Apple Mac Studio ?
Replies: 7
Views: 10570

Re: Apple Mac Studio ?

I'm back after 2 months of running our flows on a standard Mac Studio with no bobs and no whistles. Because we see so many large files (not uncommon for a pdf to be 1GB in size) I decided to get a cheap external ssd with good read write speeds to host the backend of switch so we didn't have tons of ...
by nathan_ed1
Fri Mar 25, 2022 5:00 pm
Forum: Switch
Topic: Apple Mac Studio ?
Replies: 7
Views: 10570

Re: Apple Mac Studio ?

I too was curious about this, but the owner of our company bought this machine yesterday for our Switch / PitStop implementations. We've run our implementation on 2 machines so far: a 2015 Mac Mini, and a 2017 iMac. Both with mid range specs.

I'll be back in a month to update on how things are going.
by nathan_ed1
Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:05 am
Forum: Flows
Topic: Execute Command not Finding LaTex shell command
Replies: 3
Views: 4659

Re: Execute Command not Finding LaTex shell command

You have to realize that the Switch Server process that is running in the background is NOT running in the same environment as the one that is used one the command line (either a command prompt window on Windows, or Terminal on Mac). One of the big differences is the PATH environment variable. This...
by nathan_ed1
Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:32 am
Forum: Flows
Topic: Execute Command not Finding LaTex shell command
Replies: 3
Views: 4659

Re: Execute Command not Finding LaTex shell command

I'm posting a reply to the above, as I solved nearly all the issues I was referring to. I was correct in thinking that Switch had no idea where my reference scripts were, so I had to set the absolute directory of my executables in my bash script, and then set some more inside of the pdfjam.conf to m...
by nathan_ed1
Fri Jul 24, 2020 4:01 am
Forum: Flows
Topic: Execute Command not Finding LaTex shell command
Replies: 3
Views: 4659

Execute Command not Finding LaTex shell command

Hello, We have a simple bash script I wrote to use with the execute command inside of Switch for doing some simple imposing work before sending the job off to a hot folder for our Fiery's. The Bash Script I'm betting I can get it working with more effort, but I'm hoping someone may have a solution o...