Social Networking is growing by leaps and bounds and it makes sense- after all, it is nothing more than good old fashioned networking (hand-shaking) with a virtual wrapper on top of it! Get started today.
Zevrix has today announced that they have updated their professional quality control tool for graphical source files. This is a neat, affordable software for checking image files which is further noted in the press release as;
“…Graphic Inspector provides a professional quality control solution for users of any trade, whether it’s print, prepress, web design, electronic publishing or digital photography. With Graphic Inspector, users automatically get crucial information on multiple raster and vector files, saving hours of manual checking and eliminating costly mistakes. Graphic Inspector will display the file kind, color mode, resolution, compression, color profile, spot colors, fonts, metadata and other attributes.”
SOURCE: http://graphicstart.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=126
Want to try a demo of Markzware’s FlightCheck Professional v6? You can download that here. Or would you prefer a personal demonstration highlighting the ins-and-outs of this powerful stand-alone preflight tool which can check and help you fix some 50 file formats (Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, PDF, etc.)? You are always welcome to stop by either our Santa Ana, California or Rijswijk, The Netherlands offices for a 100% personal introduction. However, for those that can not cruise by, we now also have posted a video demonstration on our YouTube channel called MarkzwareTV, which highlights the main features and functions of FlightCheck for you. It is very useful, educational and fun. Watch it here today:
You may remember my post about the video Warren Werbitt did for his company Pazazz printing. We thought it was pretty good and so did some readers. Despite the copycat controversy with the comedy troupe, the video has been a great success for them. So much so that they’ve been inducted into the respected marketing website MarketingSherpa’s Viral Hall of Fame for 2008.
Here is what MarketingSherpa had to say about the video:
Inspired by the “Animator vs Animation” Flash animated film by Alan Becker (click here to see that one), David Nieuwenhuizen, the Markzware Europe design-intern and student at Grafische Lyceum Rotterdam or GLR for short, created this cool piece. What we like about it is that it is not only showing animation and flash in a fun way, but also giving you a tour of FlightCheck Professional, highlighting some of the more important features and interface items. The FlightCheck eagle has his talons full with this pesky image, the Stickman;
More and more printers and publishers are reverting from demanding print-ready PDF jobs only. PDF and the various standards out there like PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF and the great work by the GWG (Ghent PDF Workgroup) are excellent initiatives, but not the cure-all. The reasons for this have to do with preflighting and last minute file corrections. Editing a PDF is not a trivial task. Yes, a prepress expert well trained with tools like Enfocus PitStop or Callas PDFToolbox can get away with some, but not all changes. (We will cover this in a future blog post.)
