Adobe reacts to Printers dismay on InDesign and Adobe PDF service

Markzware reported back a couple weeks ago in a post titled, “Adobe drops Print Service Provider Program – a Quark opportunity?” the news that was seemingly not going over well with printers and print-shops around the world. Since then, we have seen it turn to outrage, such as this piece (Adobe, you’re breaking my heart) from print-industry guru Frank Romano.

Thus, in all fairness, it is good to also get the Adobe side of things. Which you can in this article from WhatTheyThink.com, who has offered excellent reporting on this news byte:

http://members.whattheythink.com/articles/article.cfm?id=41758

Now, we all know that the Apple tablet is to be announced today (With or without epub format support is the question! [good Q Roelof Janssen!]). Could it be that Adobe sees print drying up and all publishing switching to Steve Job’s latest innovation? I doubt Adobe PDF or InDesign will be dropped soon at all and as a matter of a fact, what moves Apple makes with this new “iSlate” (I hope it is not called that really, as many are saying) could rub Adobe’s hairs the wrong way.

OK, back on track here for closing up this post. Check out what Adobe has to say and of course it looks like cost savings and for now, I would say leave it at that. Print is not going anywhere just because Adobe dropped a service and program not used much by many printers with whom I spoke, and Adobe is not dropping PDF or InDesign for the print-market. Remember to use Markzware’s FlightCheck to preflight PDF files, preflight InDesign files, and more, for quality print output.

Site Search Tags: flightcheck, InDesign, Markzware FlightCheck, pre-flight, preflight indesign, preflighting, publishing