Callas Software used Drupa 2008 in Düsseldorf, Germany to highlight it’s new version of pdfToolbox. As their RSS feed reads;

“pdfToolbox 4 is a major upgrade for callas’ print production toolset. It is going beyond regular preflighting and fixing to offer functionality that just gets the job done.”
SOURCE: Graphicstart.com

By-the-way, you can now view Drupa, the world’s largest printing and graphics show on your own computer desktop. Check out the link here.

I am saddened by todays news of David Watsons death.

David was a visionary and a gentleman. He always made it a point to visit me at all the GraphExpo and other tradeshows to share a word or two with me.

I have known David personally since 1996. He was a typesetter from the old days. We both shared an affinity with each other as I was a typesetter and we could relate to each other.

Not too long ago, shortly before drupa he gave me another one of those [out of the blue] phone calls. It was to invite Markzware to demonstrate our wares at the Hewlett-Packard booth. 

This Drupa may prove nothing else than the show where they all just got along. Take this example, which includes some form of preflighting (Let’s call that postflighting maybe.); Xerox’s FreeFlow workflow collection of approved vendor solutions and products which now includes FUJIFILM Workflow XMF and Heidelberg Prinect as possible connections to the extended Xerox flow.

The FUJIFILM Workflow XMF has some interesting possibilities, as this article on WhatTheyThink.com highlighted;

“XMF provides pre-flighting, native file conversion to PDF, color management, single-click imposition, and job management capabilities. It also enables electronic proofing with a three-dimensional view of the job, permitting the proofer to flip through virtual pages to check flow and alignment as well as color.”
SOURCE: WhatTheyThink.com