QuarkXPress XTensions; Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat, Premiere, and Illustrator Plug-ins;
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Now creating customized barcodes is simple and fast with Teacup Software’s BarcodeMaker Plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS, CS2, and CS3. BarcodeMaker’s versatile options allow users to make up to 27 different types of barcodes by manipulating a single user-friendly palette.Anyone working with barcodes will appreciate the ability to fully customize each individual barcode by adding numbers, changing fonts and font size, controlling barcode height, and including or excluding checksum digits.Features:• The US Postal Service is moving to a new barcode format, called OneCode or Intelligent Mail, which we're now supporting• BarcodeMaker supports 27 barcode patterns (AusPost, Code 2 of 5, 11, 39, 93, 128 and UCC-EAN-128, EAN-2, EAN-5, EAN-8, EAN-13, FIM, GS1 DataBar, GS1 DataBar Limited, ISBN (10 and 13), ISSN, Interleaved 2 of 5 and ITF-14, KIX, MSI, USPS OneCode, PharmaCode, Plessey, USPS Postnet, Rationalized Codabar, RoyalMail, UPC-A, and UPC-E) and still retains all of its original features, such as adding numbers, changing fonts and font size, controlling barcode heights, and including or excluding checksum digits• edit barcodes Directly within InDesign;• supports PatternMaker to offer a different set of parameters adjustable for each barcode; and• fully scriptable to dynamically create barcodes directly on an InDesign page.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Teacup Software
Batch makes it possible to automatically convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker files into the InDesign format. Batch utilizes InDesign's built-in conversion system, but automates the process for multiple files. Supports: QuarkXPress 3.X and 4.X saved as one language, and PageMaker 6.5 and 7.0.File search — optionally include QuarkXPress and/or PageMaker files when searching for files. Batch searches for files in the folder or disc selected and includes all documents in subfolders.Log File — the create log file feature instructs Batch to create a log file. At the end of the conversion process, this log provides information about what files have been converted correctly and what ones have issues (missing fonts, image links, and the like).Formerly known as Q-to-InDesign BatchClick the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Cacidi Systems Aps.
Badia BigPicture provides the most-comprehensive solution for managing graphics and picture links in Adobe InDesign CS3. With BigPicture, get instant access to detailed image information, a unique search engine, plus powerful tools for updating, revealing, opening, unlinking, renaming, replacing, and moving multiple links.For each image in the document, BigPicture reports the name, page, full path, color model, format, file size, image resolution (original and scaled), creator application, EPS fonts and colors, dimensions, date modified, print status, scaling, angle, color profile, link status, camera info, and more.Renaming pictures is as easy as clicking on the picture name and typing the new name. BigPicture will rename the picture file in the finder, update the InDesign link, and change all the document occurrences of the same picture.The built-in search engine of BigPicture quickly scans any hard drive for missing pictures and then provides the end user an opportunity to re-link them with any of the returned matches found. If additional missing images are located in the same folder, BigPicture can re-link them as well — automatically.Features:• move/copy pictures to a folder and re-link;• include up to 50 applications to support the edit original feature;• collect all images to a designated folder;• re-link pictures with a different folder;• update all modified pictures in one step;• select images that match specific criterion;• provides sortable, customizable picture list;• show/hide master page images; and• show/hide duplicate pictures.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Badia Software
Blacklining is a Plug-in for InDesign that when loaded will allow you to retain a complete audit trail of all changes made to the text of an InDesign document. Users of InDesign who produce financial, legal, and other exact documentation will find this an essential tool.Blacklining tracks changes made to the text of a document as it is being revised. It is designed to allow a user or viewer of an InDesign document to be able to see a complete history of changes that have occurred. Text inserts are shown as underlines and text deletes can either be shown as strike through, or have a caret mark from where text has been deleted. Blacklining also keeps a revision history that can show changes made at different revision cycles, and by choosing different revision cycles it is possible to show a complete history of a document. Preferences govern the screen display and the printed output, and these can be set for individual revision levels as well. In addition there is an option to highlight all onscreen marks and have sidebar markers when printed. A special characters’ feature allows a live header of a document to be created so that, if used on a master page for example, all pages can have document information such as name, date and time, as well as blacklining revision numbers and a checksum. A history file records the actions taken in a documents’ history and this can be printed or exported — which may be useful for billing or auditing.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: EMS
Cropmarks provides the user the ability to create high-quality crop and bleed marks on one or more selected objects within an InDesign Page.Cropmarks — Optionally choose to attach crop marks to an object. Length indicates the length of the crop mark line. Distance adjusts the distance to the object.Bleedmarks — Optionally choose to attach bleed marks to an object. Bleed indicates how much space or distance should be added to the object.Line weight — Choose the line weight of marks. All marks are automatically applied a register color and will be added to all color shapes when printing.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Cacidi Systems Aps.
Cacidi’s LiveBrowse is a visual file browser. This product makes it easy to browse through files, and drag the image or text files to an InDesign CS3 document.Choose a project folder, select an image or text file, and drag it to the document. It's easy and fast.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Cacidi Systems Aps.
It's easy to create a few charts, but mass-producing them slows down any professional-publishing workflow. With Chartbot, quickly turn out mass quantities of publication-quality charts right from QuarkXPress or InDesign. The results are slick, print very fast, and don't need checking or reworking. Chartbot never makes messy mistakes like overlapping on-chart text.Most organizations choose between Excel and Illustrator to produce charts for QuarkXPress or InDesign. Simplicity vs. designer looks. Chartbot has both, including automatic on-chart data legends and values.In traditional methods, multistep, multi-application processes must be repeated for each chart, and for each revision of the source data. They are difficult or impossible to automate reliably. Chartbot cuts the process to one step.No reworking, no checking. Chartbot eliminates the costly proofing and reworking cycle for charts: it is designed for truly unattended operation on variable data. Set options to automatically do the right thing over wide ranges of data, quantities of data, or missing data. Once set up, a Chartbot chart, in effect, needs no checking over multiple data revisions or versions.Chartbot's charts usually print at or near the printer's full-rated speed, so even productions printers usually don't slowdown for charts.Chartbot mass produces charts for professional publishers and mailers. Its hardworking features are focused on creating mainstream chart layouts that intelligently handle varying data without rework.Features:• zero data points can be automatically eliminated;• data with duplicate labels can be automatically merged;• compatible with DesignMerge, XData, InData, Xcatalog, and InCatalog;• chart layouts and/or data can be easily copied between charts or put into a template;• charts print fast — at or near rated printer speed;• on-computer print-processing time is virtually instant;• generated PDFs are extremely compact;• PDF conversion up to 75 charts/second;• charts are true vector drawings and are resolution independent;• labels and values are laid out automatically;• 11 placement layouts are available;• smart placement of labels and values prevents collisions and overlap;• text reformatting of values and labels: every number and label can be reformatted differently;• text can be white cutout from dark backgrounds;• colors of graphic shapes can be preset, taken from a cycling palette, or in-betweened (for color stepping);• negative data's graphic shapes can be automatically painted in a special color;• outlines of graphic shapes have variable color, dashing, and width;• axis, grid, tics, and callout lines have variable layout, color, dashing, and width;• text sizes and colors are variable;• three-dimensional effect is optional;• depth and view-angle are variable;• true CMYK is supported;• spot color is supported;• chart data scale can be automatic or preset;• placeholders in data reserve blank columns for missing data;• multiple data series can be interleaved, overlapped, or side by side;• bar widths, spacing, and grouping are fully variable;• line charts' and area charts' data scale can be automatic or preset;• data point markers (points on line) are available in 21 shapes;• each data point can have a different marker shape;• bottom axis can be nonzero;• pie charts' callout lines from slices to legend text can automatically be inserted only if necessary for clarity;• values print as percentage or units;• half or full pies are available; and• slices can be exploded or stuck together.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Soft Horizons
Color markup of documents is a time-consuming task that art directors and production managers have been doing manually since the advent of color printing. ColorBreaker ends that. It is absolutely accurate and unbelievably fast. ColorBreaker produces much more detailed and precise labels than if done by hand. ColorBreaker places tags that contain pertinent color information and accurately point to items and text blocks with smart arrows. This information contains everything your printer will need. It also alerts you to RGB or spot color problems. ColorBreaker labels InDesign elements and imported graphics as well. It can even place FPO tags automatically. A collision avoidance feature which decides whether to move the tag and use a call-out arrow is automatic. When a tag is moved manually, the arrows automatically reattach to it. Using ColorBreaker, you end up with clear, complete, error-free information in the right places.Features:• comprehensive color information;• shows color info of included graphics;• font information also shown;• indicates KO (knockout) items and shades;• remove all with menu command;• arrows follow boxes when moved;• customize colors and fonts;• print out or make PDF for reference; and• allows you to create a Color Break layer for added convenience.Manufacturer: GLUON, Inc.
Contact Sheet Pro 5.0 CS3 is the tool for the professional photographer or advanced prosumer, demanding superior features and functionality and making it a second-to-none solution for contact sheets and picture packages, Use all InDesign's advanced cool design features such as drop shadow, feather, or transparency. Decide how each picture package or contact sheet is designed, and what included image information (metadata) will appear in the document. All objects such as polygons, starbursts, or other shapes can be used as image, text, or decoration fields.The user is in charge of all objects’ design and appearance. Use any setting: indent, multiple columns, or dotted outlines.The recognized merge engine of the Cacidi Extreme Suite product is built into Contact Sheet Pro 5.0 CS3. This enables the user to define fixed and variable text (metadata text information included in images), and to typeset the text using InDesign paragraph and character styling.Contact Sheet 5.0 CS3 takes full advantage of the new EXIF and XMP standards, and enables the user to detect and use information for aperture, shutter speed, file path, file name, color space, and 69 more information types included in images.Create a unique design, use the palette buttons to rapidly apply the most common metadata information such as file path, file name, and color space. Define a vertical or horizontal picture package or contact sheet.Many school or social photographers create group photographs that needs to be alike for all pages in a picture package. Use the lock feature to fix a specific image to all picture packages or contact sheets, and combine with individual portraits for all persons. Contact Sheet 5.0 CS3 supports an unlimited number of locked images in each picture package.Contact Sheet Pro 5.0 CS3 scales and rotates images based on palette selections. First scale centers and scales images to bounding box and second scale fills the image box entirely with image content. Contact Sheet Pro 5.0 CS3 automatically searches for placeable images including subdirectories.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Cacidi Systems Aps.
CopyFlow Gold adds powerful page-assembly capabilities to InDesign. It provides menu selections which enables the end user to automatically import and export text into InDesign documents.These automated-processing features make using InDesign faster and more productive than ever to meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of publishing professionals in high-volume and/or multi-user, networked publishing environments.Features:• batch process text;• automate pagination and repurpose text — just do it better and faster.CopyFlow Gold provides tools for naming InDesign text frames individually, and for identifying folders from which text may be imported and exported. An additional tool called Namer allows for the automatic naming of frames, a very useful feature when many frames are involved.Using the batch import tool, the user can rapidly import content into text boxes of an InDesign document. In addition, file types are filtered using the same logic that applies to InDesign’s text filters. Text files can then be exported from InDesign into RTF or tagged text files for further editing or repurposing. CopyFlow Gold enhances the use of InDesign for many professional publishing applications, including books, magazines, journals, newsletters, newspapers, directories, advertisements, and catalogs. CopyFlow Gold automates the batch import and export of files into layouts, and dramatically increases the speed of document production. It is particularly useful where volume is high, production involves multiple revisions, and deadlines are tight.Examples of uses:• Book Production — Use CopyFlow Gold to import all the text and elements for book chapters as a batch process, even across a network from multiple sources, and in multiple file formats. Proof page layouts with all elements in position, then export text files which require revisions back to the originator or editor. Multiple revision passes are more manageable with CopyFlow Gold controlling import and export. Once revisions are completed, quickly reassemble finished chapters automatically for output.• Translations — Automatically name all text frames in an existing InDesign document, export all of the text into a single composite tagged file, submit this file to the translation application of choice, and reimport the translated text into the same InDesign document.• Database Publishing — Use the report generator in a database application to automatically tag fields with layout frame names and create a lengthy input file. Then prepare InDesign layouts with corresponding frame names for page elements. Finally, batch import the file or files using CopyFlow Gold and quickly build catalogs or directories.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: North Atlantic Publishing Systems
DataLinker for InDesign CS2 for the Macintosh is for anyone who needs to connect directly to external data, such as price lists, product catalogs, customer files, research data, budgets, or annual reports. For this type of document generation, DataLinker is an indispensable tool. The Plug-in can easily link and merge data from data sources such as spreadsheets, CSV files, SQL, and other ODBC databases. Once the data source is linked, any changes to the data can be updated automatically helping to reduce errors and save time. For flexible data management, DataLinker allows an unlimited number of data sources to be connected to an InDesign document at any given time. Features:• simultaneously merge multiple records into an InDesign document;• create barcodes from database data;• link images to image frames;• format text as it is placed to ensure continuity within a document;• apply object styles to images when they are linked; and• compatible with BarcodeMaker, TableStyles, and CellStyles. With DataLinker’s powerful styling abilities, have an image, barcode, currency, or text data formatted automatically as it flows in. An optional ODBC add-on Plug-in enables the user to link to ODBC databases and view selected data with SQL queries. Automatically merge across multiple pages, and it's easy to have numerous data sources linked to one document. For more capability, add the Plug-in for ODBC connectivity to the already powerful DataLinker Plug-in. Connect to ODBC compliant databases on Mac or Windows, link to a table of your choice, or link to a custom SQL query. DataLinker ODBC Add-on is sold separately.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Teacup Software
This simple Plug-in adds ODBC connectivity to the already powerful DataLinker Plug-in. Connect to ODBC compliant databases on Mac or Windows, link to a table of your choice, or link to a custom SQL query.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Teacup Software
(Not available for electronic delivery.) StockLayouts' high-end graphic designs of customizable templates for users of professional layout and graphics applications provide fast and affordable solutions for producing exceptional marketing materials.StockLayouts offers predesigned templates for brochures, newsletters, stationery and logos, postcards, ads, and more. The high-resolution layouts are built to exacting technical standards for commercial printing. Layout files are available in QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, and Adobe Illustrator formats for Mac or Windows users.The design templates are royalty-free. Use them repeatedly without restriction and have the unlimited creative freedom to make changes.Features:• 126 design templates in Vol 1, completely designed and ready to go;• 60 design templates in Vol 2 and 3, completely designed and ready to go;• 613 graphic elements including stock photos, logo designs and artwork;• exceptional agency-quality designs;• royalty-free license — repeatedly use layouts, photos, and artwork;• mix and match artwork, stock photos, and layouts to create unique designs without starting from scratch;• choice of professional page layout formats: QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, or Adobe Illustrator for Mac or Windows;• fully customizable layout files with editable linked graphic files;• high-resolution, royalty-free stock photos and artwork;• photos are CMYK and 300 DPI;• illustration and clipart graphics are scalable EPS;• commercial press-ready files;• colors accurately defined with bleeds pulled out and folds set up; and• suggested copy content for headlines and subheads.Note: Adobe Illustrator version does not include editable text boxes. Type has been converted to outlines.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: StockLayouts LLC
Badia Exportools fully automates the process of saving and exporting the content of individual pages into separate files — whether it's for remote printing, impositioning, archiving, or portability purposes. High-end printers and prepress houses worldwide rely on the power, speed, and flexibility of Exportools to generate high-resolution output using today's printing standards: EPS, PostScript, and PDF.Exportools can intelligently extract all the text and save it in any popular word-processing format, produce screenshots of each page for archiving or cataloguing, and even export an entire document for online publishing.Exportools can create dozens or even hundreds of files, so it's essential that a proper file-naming scheme is available to guarantee that each file has a different name, and that it can easily be recognized. That's why Exportools comes with a smart name-composition engine that allows the user to specify variable placeholders, such as page or serial numbers, that change automatically to uniquely name each exported file. By combining these variables with other placeholders or any custom text, the user has virtually endless file-naming possibilities.Exportools can also be configured to open each of the saved files with a post-processing application of the user's choice. For example, select Photoshop to open the saved EPS files, or have Microsoft Word open the pages just exported as text. Exportools also keeps track of the recent post-processing applications that have been defined, providing a quick and easy switch between these applications.Feature:• additional export formats: SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics),INX (InDesign Interchange), and INDD (InDesign Documents);• export selections: select an item or group of items in the document and export only that portion to any of the available formats;• post-processing applications: have Exportools open the exported files with their default application, or any application you choose; includes list of 50 recent applications;• export log: a new window detailing the export process in real time that allows you to open destination folder, the resulting files, or go back to the main Exportools window• eports any errors or warnings that may occur during the output process;• new option to restart serial numbers after each export session;• redesigned user interface;• easier management of pages/spreads and output and export formats; and• additional information fields.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Badia Software
Cacidi Extreme Suite 7.0 CS3 is developed exclusively for Adobe InDesign, the professional’s layout application, and extends its manually driven feature set to a high-efficiency automated production. Cacidi Extreme Suite 7.0 CS3 is the most advanced and yet easy to use standard software available for automating graphic design. Whether producing catalogs, brochures, price lists, business cards, or other single- or multipage documents containing text, image, and barcode content, Cacidi Extreme Suite provides the user with the advantage of avoiding tedious and repetitive tasks such as copying, pasting, applying local formatting to text, manually importing and scaling images, and generating barcodes — as well as updating content for future productions, Cacidi Extreme Suite 7.0 CS3 is the tool of choice for businesses with a demand for optimizing time and budget in their graphic production flow.There are four different production methods of choice, allowing any type of job the most suitable production flow. The production methods included with Cacidi Extreme Suite 7.0 CS3 are:Step 'n’ Repeat method — Create one single, either simple or advanced design, with InDesign, save it as a Cacidi Extreme Item Design, and have Cacidi Extreme automatically produce as many content-variable objects as number of records in the source file. The step-and-repeat method is very often used for productions such as business cards, mail merges, price tags, labels, and so on.Predefined method — Combine as innumerable Cacidi Extreme Item Designs on a single page or queue of pages (catalogs), and build automated documents totally controlled by the designers’ choice of layout. This method is very often used for brochures and catalogs from 1 to 50 pages, and where the designers’ general overview is in charge of the production flow.AutoCalc method — The AutoCalc method allows a production set up partly driven by the designers’ full creative freedom combined with a database set up for arranging records in groups. Select predefined InDesign paragraph and character styles, define Cacidi Extreme module use, and Cacidi Extreme automatically dispositions and arranges the layout in the InDesign document. The AutoCalc method is very often the better choice for production of extensive catalogs, price lists, manuals, brochures, and the like that typically involve from 50 to thousands of pages.Update method — The update method applies to all the methods above. No matter on what type of production method a first build of the document is based, the Cacidi Extreme Update method will — at any time — enable the user to update text, image, and barcode content in the layout as changes apply to the data source. Practically all Cacidi Extreme customers utilize the update method when publicizing future editions of their first automated productions.In general, Cacidi Extreme is able to automate 99% of InDesign’s built-in features. Additionally, Cacidi Extreme adds even more functionality to InDesign for manual and automated use. Along with a very mature feature set of Cacidi Extreme, the current Cacidi Extreme Suite version 7, offers a great deal of new functionality and benefits.Cacidi Extreme Suite 7.0 CS3 specific features:New and improved user interface — instead of using several different palettes, all major functionality is now integrated into one single palette, offering five different facings. The views and features of the palette are changed by intuitively clicking icons. The user now has a single palette that provides a much easier general overview, as well as even more essential functionality.Previously, the Extreme products were divided into different Plug-ins, combining user interface and data. In Extreme Suite, the user interface and sub-functionality are shared by several small Plug-ins.The five different views in the palette are: Basic, that includes the most commonly used features for creating modules for layout automation; AutoCalc that includes all calculation adjustments for automatic disposure of pages; PageQ that sets the environment for queuing jobs and handling of page headers and footers; Show links that provides for fast connection between external data files and design; and Text box handlers that provide for dynamic text scaling, balancing of columns, and auto adjustment of boxes.Show links is a fast way to connect data from the database with fields in InDesign. The many complex features are hidden behind a simple and clear user interface, that shows the most important buttons for selecting InDesign templates, scaling of images, set, and get hidden data. With a single click, include merging codes for text, images, barcodes. and other elements. A logically arranged and easy-to-see list provides a general view and shows the actual merge information in the data file.When creating price lists, a user would generally refer to a row of different variations in height of the same module. Extreme Suite enables the user to choose the new feature Create Variation, that will automatically create all variations of design modules to be used in relation with a chosen grid size.Choose automatic scaling of text for a given frame from three different adjustment priorities. Minimum and maximum scaling of point size as priority 1, as priority 2, choose tracking, kerning, or spacing of text, and even leading can be adjusted automatically in the priority scheme.In previous versions, the user could intuitively define the grid working size, but it is now also possible to define an item box size and have the application automatically calculate the number of tiles to fit on a page. Through an automated feature, Extreme Suite automatically balances text from the first column into the following columns. Additionally, Image and text frames are dynamically adjusted to the content of the frame, and by choosing binding, the elements are locked together.The AutoCalc feature has been enhanced to enable the user to adjust specific module names for left and right pages. If the modules for right and left page differ, the correct design is chosen, depending on whether the page is positioned left or right.Cacidi Extreme Suite includes a recognized merge engine for working with simple data output files in tab, comma, semicolon, and other simple delimited formats, and now allows a full featured XML workflow. Change a simple preference setting and work with XML input files as well as simple text files.Roundtrip allows changes to be made directly within InDesign to the text content initially imported into a Cacidi Extreme Suite automated production. After manually applying changes to the dynamic content in the document, the user can create an export file to write back into the data source/database, including all the text-content changes applied with InDesign.With Cacidi Extreme Suite, build automated documents on multiple InDesign layers in one single process. If a Cacidi Extreme item design is saved on a specific layer, it will at any time produce on the same layer simultaneously with items saved on different layers. Should the item design be brought into a different document that does not have the layer prepared, Cacidi Extreme Suite will instantly create the layer.Extreme BarCodes 3.0 CS3 adds two more barcode types to the general feature set, ISBN (International Standard Book Numbering) and ISSN (International Standard Serial Numbering). Developers using Extreme BarCodes as an engine for generating barcodes, can now benefit from the custom feature, thereby generating their own defined barcode types.Each and every detail of this suite has been refined. If the user selects a color that has not been defined in the document, the color will be created. The same goes for paragraph formats and character formats. InDesign templates can be saved and new projects created directly from the palette.Cacidi Extreme's speed is second to none, allowing users to build or update multipage productions very close to ultimate deadline. The product integrates seamlessly with InDesign and delivers ready-to-print InDesign files or PDFs, depending upon the user’s requirements. With its exceptionally affordable price, Cacidi Extreme solutions offer the best return on investment in today’s market.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Cacidi Systems Aps
FlightCheck Designer (formerly FlightCheck Collect) is a stand-alone application that assists designers as well as service providers in preflighting all major desktop-publishing files.In addition to OS X compatibility, the new features of FlightCheck Designer include: support for OpenType, TrueType, and Adobe Type 1 fonts; expanded support for a variety of native applications, including Microsoft Word, Publisher, and PowerPoint; the ability to open and verify multiple documents in a single session; and sort lists of colors, fonts, images, and so on with a simple click of the file header.FlightCheck Designer’s simple interface will assist designers in checking digital documents for over 150 potential problems. Obeying FlightCheck Designer’s user-definable preferences (called ground controls) the product finds problems with colors, fonts, and images which are the main focus for designers. FlightCheck Designer has the same powerful collection features as the award-winning preflighting application, FlightCheck.Features:• enhanced speed;• Ghent PDF Workgroup rules added to PDF FlightPlan;• Pass4Press PDF specification check added to PDF FlightPlan; and• German, Dutch, and French language options in one package.Supported files and versions:• QuarkXPress: v. 3.1 - 6.0• PageMaker: v.4.2 - 7.0• Photoshop: v.4.0 - 9.0 (CS2)• Illustrator: v6.0 - 12.0 (CS2)• FrameMaker: v5.5 - 6.0• InDesign: v. 1.0 - 4.0 (CS2)• Acrobat: v. 3.0 - 7.0 (PDF v1.6)• Microsoft Word: v 2000 - 2002• Microsoft Publisher: v. 2000 - 2002• Microsoft PowerPoint: v1997 - 2002• FreeHand: v7.0 - 11.0 (MX)• Corel Draw: v8.0 - 9.0• PostScript Levels I, II, and III.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Markzware Software
FlightCheck is the revolutionary stand-alone application that scans documents using a simple drag-and-drop approach to warn of over 150 potential problems, easily and automatically.FlightCheck scans native document files, even without the application that created it, to eliminate using the eyeball method to check documents. FlightCheck verifies all the documents' elements such as colors, fonts, and images and ensures they are valid. After verification, FlightCheck reports a host of possible problems such as missing images or fonts — even fonts in EPSF files.FlightCheck watches for problems such as unused spot colors that may result in printing additional plates, fonts that have been stylized from a style menu, image boxes that have a background color of None, RGB, TIFF, and JPG compressed images, and so on. These problems could result in poor printing or worse yet, stop the print job. After the user is ensured all is well, FlightCheck collects all related files into a single job, including images and both screen and printer fonts, and puts them into a special FlightCheck-approved folder.FlightCheck 5.7 new enhancements are: • Brand new Ground Control for detecting embedded fonts in native files; • Improved accuracy for reading Illustrator CS EPS files; • Improved support for fonts activated through Extensis Suitcase; • Detection of PANTONE colorized text for both InDesign and QuarkXPress; • Detection of boxes with a 'Content Of None' in QuarkXPress;Features:• Carbon support for Macintosh OS X, including Tiger 10.4;• PDF FlightPlans include PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3;• special PDF object model;• cross-platform ground controls;• supports OpenType fonts;• preflight support for Microsoft Word v4, 5, 6, 8 (Office 2000), and 9 (Office 2001) for both Mac and Windows files;• enhanced speed;• Ghent PDF Workgroup rules added to PDF FlightPlan;• Pass4Press PDF specification check added to PDF FlightPlan;• German, Dutch, and French language options in one package;• 70 new views which are essentially the same as the ground controls for colors, fonts, and images (these enable the user to get, for example, a specific list of just TIFF images or TrueType fonts, and zeroing in on (or printing) user-definable specific data;• four new ground controls for detecting the presence of application-generated clipping paths, ICC Profile usage, PostScript color-space management and ink density (highest pixel value in rasterized TIFF or EPS images); and• a next problem button has been added to the problems layout (locate the next occurrence of any problems based on the currently selected criteria, and skip pages that do not have any related problems).Macintosh Supported Applications and Versions:Supported files and versions:• QuarkXPress: v. 3.1 - 6.0• PageMaker: v.4.2 - 7.0• Photoshop: v.4.0 - 9.0 (CS2)• Illustrator: v6.0 - 12.0 (CS2)• FrameMaker: v5.5 - 6.0• InDesign: v. 1.0 - 4.0 (CS2)• Acrobat: v. 3.0 - 7.0 (PDF v1.6)• Microsoft Word: v 2000 - 2002• Microsoft Publisher: v. 2000 - 2002• Microsoft PowerPoint: v1997 - 2002• FreeHand: v7.0 - 11.0 (MX)• Corel Draw: v8.0 - 9.0• PostScript Levels I, II, and III.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Markzware Software
FlightCheck Studio is the essential desktop tool for anyone creating content, providing assurance that once the file has been completed, it is correct and will proceed through the rest of the workflow without a hitch.FlightCheck Studio is capable of detecting virtually all problems commonly encountered in the print and publishing industry. By simply clicking on a reported error, FlightCheck Studio takes the operator directly to the page and place in the document where the suspect element is located to facilitate repair or replacement.The FlightCheck Studio Inspector is used to locate specific elements that would otherwise be difficult to find. For instance, to locate a picture rotated one degree (that would be nearly impossible to find with your eye), or find the next occurrence of a box with trap set to knockout. Features: • performs hundreds of checks, including page setup settings, color and font usage, image details, PDF output preferences, color management, and user preferences such as units and show/hide guidelines;• automatically navigates to flagged items in the results list; and• displays details of the currently selected object, including position, color attributes, trap settings, and more.Document design specifications are based on rules. A rule, or Design Policy, is saved as a file which is then distributed to any number of designers or customers to ensure all documents will comply with the Design Policy. All aspects of the design can be controlled including: style sheets, font usage, images, colors, and much more.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Markzware Software
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