PDF Checkpoint for Mac 1.9.8

PDF Checkpoint for Mac is a powerful graphic design software that automates PDF production workflow with its advanced batch processing capabilities. This software is designed to help users preflight, route by preflight results, export as images, convert colors, split and reduce file size of multiple PDF files in one go.

Preflighting multiple PDF files can be a time-consuming task. However, with PDF Checkpoint's customizable preflight profiles and detailed information on document fonts, color spaces, images and attributes, users can quickly preflight multiple PDF files without any hassle.

PDF Checkpoint also allows users to route files by preflight results automatically. Users can choose success and error folders where the software will move or copy the PDF files after preflighting. Additionally, it generates a detailed report for each file that has been processed.

One of the most significant features of this software is its ability to optimize PDFs by converting colors to desired color profiles such as RGB to CMYK. It also downsamples and compresses images to reduce the overall file size of the document.

Users can also export their batch-processed PDFs into TIFF, JPEG or PNG formats as RGB, CMYK or Grayscale while specifying their desired image resolution and page scale. Furthermore, they can automatically split large multi-page documents into single-page ones for easy handling.

The built-in viewer allows users to preview their processed documents before exporting them while revealing them in Finder makes it easier for them to locate their saved documents on their Mac computers.

In conclusion, if you're looking for an efficient way to automate your workflow when dealing with multiple PDFs simultaneously without compromising quality or accuracy - then look no further than PDF Checkpoint for Mac!

PDF Checkpoint for Mac checks portable documents for errors, sorts them into folders, converts them to one-page PDFs or images, makes visual tweaks, and saves them in a copy. This premium app supports multiple file operations, analyzes the documents as they're loaded, and looks for predetermined settings or content keywords. Overall, the app feels snappy and very focused, but we did encounter a few interface peculiarities.

PDF Checkpoint for Mac features a main window with five sections in addition to an optional document details drawer. Adding files is done by dropping PDFs into the Files area or by using the "Choose Files..." button. Multilingual PDF documents (LPDF) are not supported. The four available actions are: sorting documents into folders determined by the presence of errors, converting PDFs to one of five image formats, splitting multi-page documents, optimizing PDFs by changing the color scheme, and compressing images. When testing two six-page documents, it took us four seconds to convert them to JPEG images and two seconds to split them into 12 PDFs. Curiously enough, the app's settings are located not in Preferences, but in the "Actions" button on the toolbar.

Although PDF Checkpoint for Mac provides a focused and relatively in-depth feature set, it will only be useful to you, if you handle a lot of PDFs. The preflight scanning features, as well as options like scaling, PPI and scale adjustment, color correction, and compression, provide a level of customizability to an otherwise static format.

Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of PDF Checkpoint for Mac 1.6.4.