Enfocus CEO David van Driessche says that Instant PDF 3.0 closes the communication gap between the creative and production processes, providing document creators and receivers the means to achieve consistent PDF output and quality control via Certified PDF technology.

"We consulted with a wide variety of printers and designers, and the overwhelming consensus was that maximizing the automation of PDF quality control would bring them the most benefit," van Driessche says. "Now printers and publishers can set-up any number of PDF Queues and know that their customers will be able to create PDFs that automatically comply with the quality specifications in the PDF Queue."

Instant PDF 3.0 moves Certified PDF creation upstream.  Using Instant PDF 3.0, creative professionals are now able to create Certified PDFs from within their layout application(s).  The powerful Enfocus Certified PDF technology, incorporated in all Enfocus products, guarantees that files comply with print or advertisement vendors' specifications and eliminates the need to re-preflight PDFs at every step of the workflow.

With a copy of Instant PDF 3.0 on their workstations, designers can easily download printers' PDF specifications – expressed by the Enfocus PDF Queue – to transparently guide the entire PDF creation and preflight process from the point of design and throughout the entire PDF workflow, through to prepress and output.

Enfocus PDF Queues published on CertifiedPDF.net by printers, publishers, industry associations, and Enfocus can be directly imported from within Instant PDF. The built-in synchronization feature that interacts with CertifiedPDF.net guarantees that imported PDF Queues remain up-to-date, ensuring ongoing consistency with workflow partners.

Once imported, PDF Queues become accessible through the "Save as Certified PDF" file menu option in leading page layout and PDF applications such as Adobe® InDesign®, QuarkXPress, and Adobe® Acrobat®, and through the PDF Services feature in the Mac OS® X print panel. Creative professionals remain productive in their familiar environment without having to worry about print styles, PDF export and other PDF creation settings. The bottom line is that designers are free to design without agonizing over the technical aspects of PDF file creation.

In addition, Instant PDF 3.0 provides a comprehensive, in-application help system. This help system contains a complete description of possible errors and warnings that appear during preflight, and assists the document creator in solving them.  (See attached document, "Enfocus Instant PDF 3.0 Highlights," for additional product features.)

"Enfocus has 'done it again' with Instant PDF 3.0," says Grant Fritch, Director of Technology/R&D, Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, Missouri.  "Walsworth has come to expect flexibility and consistent results from PitStop Professional and Instant PDF, and this version continues in that tradition.  We support hundreds of customers that are required to supply Certified PDF files for production, and Instant PDF 3.0 will make it even easier than before.  Using Instant PDF, a stand-alone application, we will be able to save thousands of dollars by working with legacy products and instead invest that money in important training and support of the Enfocus tools."

"Enfocus has, with Instant PDF 3.0, made it surprisingly easy to propagate a PDF workflow to internal and external users.  For designers, Instant PDF 3.0 is an essential tool for creating reliable, press-ready PDFs," says James Lockman, Director of Operations for Working Words & Graphics, a leading design, prepress and training company based in Greater Portland, Maine.

"Enfocus Instant PDF 3.0 is the perfect vehicle to use in the drive towards implementing a Certified PDF Workflow," says Tony Tomlinson, Manager, Content and Workflow, The Stationary Office, UK.  "PDF files can be easily created, exchanged and validated using this application. Print professionals (ed. the final PDF receivers) can assume full control of the Certified PDF Workflow by defining, creating, managing and distributing PDF Queues to the PDF Creators and other PDF Receivers, who are then able to concentrate on their core roles and responsibilities."

Instant PDF 3.0 is available stand-alone for £149, and in volume licenses starting at 5 or more users. Discounted distribution packs allow printers and publishers to equip their customers with Instant PDF 3.0 for a price as low as £35 per copy.  Instant PDF 3.0 is also part of the new Enfocus PDF Workflow Suite.  This solution suite contains Instant PDF 3.0 for set-up of Enfocus PDF Queues, a license to use CertifiedPDF.net to publish PDF Queues, PitStop Server to automatically check and correct incoming PDFs, and PitStop Professional to create PDF Profiles and Action Lists and to manually inspect, edit and correct PDFs.