ARTS PDF - White Paper: ARTS PDF Crackerjack X compared with Adobe Acrobat X Professional

White Paper: ARTS PDF Crackerjack X compared with Adobe^® Acrobat X^® Professional

With the introduction of Acrobat^®, prepress professionals now have more choices available to them for using PDF in their workflows. But how do they decide which tool provides the functionality they need?

ARTS PDF Crackerjack X product overview

Acrobat^®6/7+ Professional includes separations printing capability and separations preview. While this may be sufficient for the needs of some print providers, ARTS PDF believes that ARTS PDF Crackerjack X provides a much richer feature set for the prepress professional which can make their workflow more efficient and profitable.

The table below provides a partial list of the many differences in features between ARTS PDF Crackerjack X and Acrobat X^®. ARTS PDF Crackerjack X's unique features were developed over seven years of listening to our customers' needs.



Feature	Benefit	ARTS PDF Crackerjack	Acrobat^® Professional



Impose PDF	Create n-up or step & repeat an imposition. This can save money on wasted film/paper and also allows for layout of things like business cards - complete with trim marks.	YES	NO


Font embedding check/fix	Checks a PDF prior to printing to ensure that all fonts are embedded. Saves wasted film by preventing imaging with Courier instead of the intended font.	YES	NO


Check for Enfocus Certified PDF™ status	Allows the user to verify that a PDF meets their Enfocus Certified PDF criteria before printing.	YES	NO


Convert RGB or CMYK to spot color	Many applications (especially Microsoft Office) cannot create PDFs with spot colors. Being able to select and convert any RGB or CMYK color in a PDF to a spot color allows your jobs to be printed as intended.	YES	NO


Accurate separations preview	Display separations with all print settings such as media size, marks and color space conversion applied. Relying on separations previews that don't accurately reflect the output can be costly.	YES	NO


RGB to CMYK conversion	Automatically detect RGB data and apply standard or user defined color space conversion. Combined with the ability to accurately preview separations this can save time and money.	YES	Manual. No auto detection/ conversion.


Dot gain compensation	All printing suffers from the phenomena called dot gain. Dot gain is the uncontrolled spreading of the ink on the printing surface. Halftones printed without correct dot gain compensation will appear darker and with higher contrast.	YES	NO


Hot folder automation	Allows the user to create one or more folders to support drag-and-drop automatic printing of PDF documents. Output is based on user defined settings.	YES	NO


Auto-size media	Reads the media size of a PDF and automatically applies it as the media size for printing. Also allows the user to specify a "border" or additional white space to be added to the media size. Saves time by avoiding the need to switch between page setup and print setup windows.	YES	NO


Technical support	You may not always need it but when you do, are the people you talk to knowledgeable about the product and your prepress issues? ARTS PDF support is also FREE.	YES	NO

Acrobat is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. Certified PDF is a registered trademark of Artwork Systems.

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