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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
PrintCapture transparently keeps track of the entire print history of a document. This is especially useful in departments which bill for color prints. PrintCapture indicates how many prints were made to which printer at what time and date. This running log is kept with the document in its folder, and can be viewed as a text document or imported into any database or spreadsheet software. This product makes billing more accurate and easier on both operators and administrative personnel.Features:• client popup menu and data sent to database;• client popup changes job number;• popup shows only this client's job numbers;• auto-archiving of database;• easier to customize;• three different styles of print-tracking modes to choose from (normal enables users to type in any job number or select from a list; job number requires the user to select job numbers from a list; or stealth with no dialog interface);• improved manager application allows multi-criteria filtering so print information can be sorted to only that which is needed;• optionally track only certain printers;• comment field;• optional centrally served popup list of job numbers that sorts itself depending on what has been entered, allowing for hundreds of numbers; and• direct integration with FileMaker ProFree with PrintCapture, the stand-alone print log viewer tracks a file or enables the drag and drop on the print log viewer to automatically compile useful information about the print history of a job. In addition to giving totals it takes the various user-defined billing rates and calculates up-to-date billing totals for the job, and can print the information.print log viewer is a System extension that continually monitors printing from any application. Once in place, any printing which uses background printing, including all desktop printers, will cause a small extra dialog to appear which allows (or requires) the user to enter a job number for the print. This information is then added to a print log which can then be viewed with print track manager. Information tracked includes: number of pages, number of copies, page size, printer name, machine name, job number, creator application, document name, user name, and print area.Manufacturer: GLUON
Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign) is a Pug-in for Adobe InDesign that provides users a quick and easy way to migrate their QuarkXPress projects into a new Adobe InDesign document. The conversion is enabled with a single click using the file menu in InDesign.Intricate details of the content within the QuarkXPress project are instantly recreated within InDesign. Items converted from QuarkXPress include: page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked and anchored boxes, PANTONE colors, and other color models.The Q2ID document-conversion technology saves countless hours of scanning, re-keying, and formatting. This product will convert and transform files created from within QuarkXPress — Windows or Mac — into an InDesign file, that then can be opened on both platforms.It is important to note that even though Q2ID provides many benefits, conversion is not perfect. This is because manufacturers of desktop-publishing applications have their own, unique methods of text rendering. Therefore, text flow will not be completely accurate. Depending on the use of custom kerning, tracking, leading, and so on, more or less rework may be required — some rework will always be required. We suggest that all converted documents are proofed before output.Features:• preserves intellectual property investment;• enables easy data migration;• eliminates time recreating content;• reduces costs recreating content;• freedom to choose an authoring system;• supports InDesign CS2 and CS3;• converts QuarkXPress v3.3, 4.X, 5.X, 6.X and 7.X;• simple to install;• quick and easy to use; and• swift return on investment.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Markzware Software
qXport is a flexible and reliable program that has been optimized for converting Word files into QuarkXPress and InDesign CS files. It can also be used for exporting to simple XML or plain text.qXport attempts to retain the Word structures which are also available in QuarkXPress and InDesign while at the same time cleaning up the Word files.Features:• completely new design;• delivers better cross-platform compatibility and significantly improved performance;• now available in a native Mac OS 9 and X version along with Windows (98-XP);• can now be used with MS Word 97-2004 (Win/Mac) for export to QuarkXPress v3 through v6 (Win/Mac) and InDesign 3 (Win/Mac);• has optimized output to InDesign CS, providing native InDesign CS tags and support for index tags and tables;• unlimited number of parameter sets simplify handling of the numerous conversion and export options available;• using individually definable tables, replace fonts during conversion (this is useful for typesetting in foreign languages that do not use Latin fonts;• Unicode support automatically adapts character codes for typesetting in languages such as Greek, Polish, and Cyrillic with QuarkXPress;• automated optimization (bolding is automatically removed from symbol fonts; and• offers simple XML export with paragraph style sheets representing individual paragraph tags or use plain text to remove all of the original formatting information.Proven conversion capabilities:• paragraph- and character-based style sheets;• special typographical characters;• numbered and bulleted lists and outlines including special characters;• colored text;• tables converted to text with tabs (for QuarkXPress) or native InDesign tables (for InDesign);• footnotes and endnotes shown at end of document;• full support of symbol character sets such as Symbol, Wingdings, and Zapf Dingbats;• full support of indexes recognizes index tags in Word and prepares them for use with IndeXTension in QuarkXPress v4.X and higher versions, or InDesign CS;Advantages:• index tags for generation of indexes are recognized (standard XPress filter ignores them);• only imports style sheets that are used in the Word document;• recognizes text in text fields;• ignores page breaks (that result in jumping between frames);• batch processing, any number of Word files can be converted at once;• recognizes and converts native tables (for InDesign CS) or converts columns into tabs (for QuarkXPress but does not recognize table tags); and• generates consistent, high-quality output with any of the supported QuarkXPress versions, Word versions, or operating systems.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Bitmix Cross Media
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