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Acrobat May 2019 Update
with PDF 2.0 and PDF Processing Steps

16. May 201915. May 2019 by Stephan Jaeggi

Adobe released planned updates for Acrobat DC and Acrobat 2017. As usual there are separate installers:

Acrobat 19.012.20034 for subscribers of the Document Cloud (Continuous Track)
Acrobat 17.011.30142 for users with a perpetual license of Acrobat 2017 (Classic Track)

The update can also be installed using the Acrobat menu Help > Check for Updates….

In addition to many improvements in the user interface (e.g. Review, Signatures, Reopen closed documents, Search, Commenting, Microsoft integration) there are finally also some interesting new features for print production in the preflight function:

First features for OpenType SVG fonts
in Callas pdfToolbox and Enfocus PitStop

16. May 201929. April 2019 by Stephan Jaeggi

Recently I have published a warning regarding the use OpenType SVG fonts in Adobe InDesign CC2019 for PDFs for print production.

In the meantime, the manufacturers of the most important preflight tools have reacted and included corresponding functions in the latest versions of their products:

Enfocus PitStop 2019
with many small improvements

29. April 201929. April 2019 by Stephan Jaeggi

The improvements in Enfocus PitStop 2019 Update on one hand bring extensions of existing functions but also a more efficient handling of the PitStop tools.

My favorites are the following functions:

Show objects outside of page box
Object Browser: Better analysis and selection of page objects
Rasterize selection: Render (rip) individual objects to images
Split action list: Allows multiple passes in one action
Calculation functions for preflight variables

At enfocus.com there is a longer list of new features (incl. more videos) and I also found a detailed list of all changes (with screenshots).

GWG: new Landing Page and new
Preflight Profiles for Digital Printing

23. April 201923. April 2019 by Stephan Jaeggi

After the recent publication of the first specification for digital printing by the Ghent Workgroup (GWG), a new landing page for digital printing has now been released. A similar landing page has recently been launched for packaging and labels.

On the new digital printing page you can also download the new digital printing preflight profiles for Enfocus PitStop Pro and Callas pdfToolbox. The Callas profile can also be used with Acrobat DC Pro.

ATTENTION: The new profiles are called «GWG_Digital_Cutsheet_2015…». The year 2015 is justified by the fact that the new digital printing specification is based on the GWG2015 specifications for offset printing.

Disable the new security warning
in Acrobat and Distiller

17. April 201912. April 2019 by Stephan Jaeggi

Since the (unimportant) Acrobat update of April 9, 2019, users have been surprised by the following dialog box when converting PostScript and EPS files to PDF in Acrobat and Distiller:

This message appears in the following variants of Acrobat:

Acrobat DC: 2019.010.20099
Acrobat 2017: 2017.011.30138
Acrobat 2015 Classic: 2015.006.30493

Adobe has already published instructions for permanently disable this annoying security warning in Acrobat and Distiller.

An update to version 19.010.20100 for Windows has already been released on April 16, 2019, which prevents the security warning from opening while printing to Adobe PDF.