Specifications

3. Enfocus PitStop Server places successfully processed PDF documents in a dedicated folder

(3) but also saves the PDF documents with errors (3’).

4. Enfocus PitStop Server generates a preflight report and saves it in the respective folder.

Main rules for valid hot folders

Hot folders cannot work without any Action Lists or a Preflight Profile. A hot folder must have

either a Preflight Profile or at least one Action List before you can successfully activate it. In other

words, a hot folder can be valid when it has:

• Just a Preflight Profile and no Action Lists

• One or more Action Lists and no Preflight Profile

• A Preflight Profile and one or more Action Lists

A hot folder can have several Action Lists, but only one Preflight Profile.

To be valid, other requirements need to be met, e.g. a hot folder also needs valid paths to the

respective input and output folders. When the hot folder is not valid, the errors to be corrected

will be shown at the bottom of the dialog, and in the Summary. See

Summary

on page 61.

5.2 What is processing?

Processing defined

Hot folders in an Enfocus PitStop Server environment "process" incoming documents automatically

and place these documents in a given folder, depending on the process result. What do we

understand by processing?

Processing can mean the following:

• A PDF document can be checked against a Preflight Profile and corrected correspondingly. A

Preflight Profile is a set of user-defined criteria which define whether a PDF document is

output-worthy or not.

• An Action List can be applied to a PDF document. An Action List is a series of tasks to edit or

correct PDF documents automatically. You can also use Action Lists to check elements.

• You can combine a PDF Profile and Action List(s) in one processing method called 'preflight

and auto correct'

• Documents other than PDF documents can arrive in the input folder of a hot folder. Enfocus

PitStop Server will detect that their digital format is not PDF and move these documents to a

given folder.

Note: You can design Preflight Profiles or Action Lists with products like Enfocus PitStop Pro, a

plug-in for Adobe Acrobat.

Action Lists and Preflight Profiles: required “fuel” for processing

Action Lists and Preflight Profiles are the "fuel" for hot folders. The processing of hot folders can

be triggered by one or more Action Lists, a Preflight Profile or a combination of both. A hot folder

with neither an Action List nor a Preflight Profile simply won’t run. For each hot folder you can

specify:

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