This week, Belgian software developer Enfocus shipped PitStop Extreme, the long-rumored standalone version of its Acrobat plug-in PitStop Pro. Both products are designed for print facilities that use PDF workflows and need sophisticated editing tools to fix files en route to the presses.

PitStop Extreme, which costs $3,499 new and; $2,799 for current PitStop Pro 08 users, adds text-editing features found in the multipage PDF editing application Neo from Enfocus parent company EskoArtwork. PitStop Extreme also gets a more efficient document viewing and handling interface than can be achieved via the PitStop-Acrobat combination, says David van Driessche, director of Enfocus marketing.

The text-editing feature combination is designed to make life easier for printers, who often struggle with the "locked-down" aspect of PDF files when clients call in with last-minute alterations.

"Text editing in both Acrobat and in PitStop, to be honest, was always a little bit painful," van Driessche says. "In Extreme, you can edit multiple paragraphs at the same time, and you can even link text blocks together so you have reflow on the same page."

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