Penguins?

[che.c]

Being a bit of a one-man show here (it's just a small digital shop) I didn't have anyone to show me PitStop Pro. Believe it or not we work mainly with PDFs and it was sitting on its CD uninstalled for ages! I've been working through the features and it's been a revelation, no more PDF editing in Illustrator (bad bad dark days).

During my exploration of the menus I noticed the Add Penguin. Now I know that a roller banner is called a penguin in teh colloquial - so I used to press the 'Add Penguin' button in Pitstop and see if I could work out what it did. It wasn't until I clicked it on a very low coverage file that I realised..

..it adds a penguin.

Best feature.

[Joe]

Well duh!  :laugh:

[Ear]

Is it a fat penguin?  :tongue:

[almaink]

Cool thing is U can change that penguin to any image you want. Just edit the action.

[Tracy]

I had to ask what the penguin button was for!
It adds a penguin. tee hee!

[Gusgsm]

The apparently annoying and innocuous Add Penguin action hides the very powerful ability of PitStop to add complex objects in given places in given pages in huge documents.

Let's say you've got to add an orange box with white type set in Times in blah, blah... in the left upper corner of every odd page in a 700 pages pdf... The "Add penguin" will show you the way of how to do that in two whiskers o a pussycat (really).

I wrote a brief summary of how to do that (though in Spanish) for PitStop version 6 if you want it. I could re post it here (translated of course).

Gustavo

[beermonster]

welcome aboard gusgsm  :grin:

i think users would find that very handy so yes post it - any chance of an english translation though?

and thanks for the offer - nice one!

[Gusgsm]

Hi, beermonster. Thank you for the welcome and I'll try to post a translation ASAP (Easter time, though).

G.

[David]

i think users would find that very handy so yes post it - any chance of an english translation though?

would that be American English, or that stuff they speak on the other side of the pond?

 :laugh: :laugh:

[beermonster]

what - French

[Tracy]

welcome gus
i would be interested in the  translation too!

[Gusgsm]

I am afraid it's going to take me a longer while than I thought. If it's not forbidden to post other sites (I don't know, sorry if so... and delete the link), you might try a googled-off automatic translation of the current file: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gusgsm.com%2Fpitstop%2Fnode%2F214&sl=es&tl=en&hl=es&ie=UTF-8 ).

(Wish I could know how to insert URLs in this board  )

[tapdn]

did someone say french :tongue:

[Joe]

I am afraid it's going to take me a longer while than I thought. If it's not forbidden to post other sites (I don't know, sorry if so... and delete the link), you might try a googled-off automatic translation of the current file: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gusgsm.com%2Fpitstop%2Fnode%2F214&sl=es&tl=en&hl=es&ie=UTF-8 ).

(Wish I could know how to insert URLs in this board  )

Welcome Gusgsm...to post links just enter in:

Code Select Expand

[url=http://www.mysitehere.com]My Wonderful Site[/url]
And it will come out like this:

My Wonderful Site

[vwbus56]

Cool.
This allows us to add watermarks to PDFs automatically using this action in an Apogee Prepress workflow.
Thanks!