One of the main reasons for using PitStop Pro is editing PDF documents. For example, you may want to change text (or its formatting) or objects, or you may want to change the page layout or to prepare your document for either print or screen viewing,...
You can make these changes manually, one by one, but if you have to perform these tasks a number of times, either within a single PDF document or in multiple PDF documents, it may be preferable to automate them, using Actions and Action Lists.
Actions are pre-defined tasks provided to you by PitStop Pro. You can use them as they are, or you can adjust them to your needs (by changing the attributes) or you can even record your own Actions and re-use them later on.
The listed Actions are examples of Actions that allow you to change and edit a PDF, but you can also use Actions for making selections, gathering information and checking if a PDF conforms to certain standards.
Actions are always included in Action Lists. Action Lists are sequences of one or more tasks. As most of the time, several tasks have to be performed one after the other, and often in a fixed order, these Action Lists allow you to perform complex operations on PDF files.
For example, if you change the layout of the text in your document, you will probably carry out 4 different tasks (4 "Actions"): first you'll select the text, and then you'll change the font, the font size, and the font color as required. You can group them into one Action List, and run this Action List only once. If you later have to do the same, for example in another PDF, you can simply re-use the Action List.
Note that you can use Action Lists in other Enfocus products as well, for example in a PDF Queue in Enfocus Instant PDF, in a Connector in Enfocus Connect and in a hot folder in Enfocus PitStop Server.