belgium 1993 headquarters ghent belgium key people fabian prudhomme vp enfocus fr d ric thibaut director enfocus sales bjorn willems director enfocus product management kristof kemseke director of enfocus development isabel raes marketing manager number of employees 52 2016 website www.enfocus.com enfocus 1 2 is a software company . contents 1 history 2 products 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit enfocus was founded in 1993 by peter camps . the company was started to develop solutions for the next platform to edit postscript files . with the decline of next it migrated to the macintosh platform . in 1997 the focus shifted from postscript solutions to also include pdf based tools as the publishing industry started to move to support the pdf format . enfocus was acquired by artwork systems in 2001 . as of 2007 after the merger of artwork systems and eskographics enfocus operates as a strategic business unit within esko . in march 2008 eskoartwork acquired gradual software a belgian developer of workflow automation software and integrated the gradual software technology in the enfocus business unit . in 2011 esko was acquired by danaher . in 2002 enfocus was a co founder of the ghent pdf workgroup 3 of which it is still a member . products edit pitstop pro the core product for pdf quality control preflight auto correction and manual editing . this runs as a plug in to adobe acrobat . pitstop server a hot folder based version of pitstop professional . connect you to guide the creation including verification of pdfs for professional publishing . this is the successor of instant pdf . connect all to help printers receive certified pdf files . connect all is the successor of pitstop connect . switch a workflow tool which integrates and automates file handling and third party software . certified pdf is a core technology supported by all enfocus products that can embed a range of metadata into a pdf file such as creator modification editing history preflight history and criteria and optionally a sequence of undo states . enfocus products can create read and update certificates as a pdf is passed through a production sequence . see also edit eskoartwork company references edit naa vendor links business week on enfocus newspapers and technology on the foundation of the ghent pdf workgroup external links edit enfocus homepage crossroads world an automation community around enfocus switch retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title enfocus & oldid 704423245 categories software companies of belgiumprinting software navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 february 2016 at 14 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view