GWG makes MS Office and Acrobat 9 PDF creation from Office Applications Easy-as-pie

Making a print-ready Acrobat PDF or similar PDF file can be tricky. Preflight for document quality control with FlightCheck should be a key part of any graphic design or publishing workflow.

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As the developer of the FlightCheck preflighting solution for PDF and many other file types, Markzware noticed this initiative for PDF creation:

Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Updates Require New GWG Guidelines for PDF Creation from Office Applications

To make it easier and faster to get quality results in PDFs created from Office applications, the Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG) has issued new best practice process guidelines. The new guidelines were developed in response to recent changes made to Office applications and the Adobe Acrobat family of products.

The new Office Printing PDF Creator Guidelines are available for free download at: http://gwg.org/Office_Document_Printing_-1.phtml

Says Menno Mooji, co-chairman of the GWG Office Document Printing Subcommittee and a founder of ISI Publishing Innovators, “With the software changes in Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 and Adobe Acrobat 9, new ways of creating predictable PDFs are now possible. As a result, we’ve released a document outlining best practices that cater to the new developments.
Source: http://www.quickprinting.com/web/online/Industry-News-and-Trends/Microsoft-Office-and-Adobe-Acrobat-Updates-Require-New-GWG-Guidelines-for-PDF-Creation-from-Office-Applications/1$10765

Want to see a good way to preflight documents destined for print, whether Adobe files, Quark or many others? Watch this video demonstration of FlightCheck and try the FREE FlightCheck demo download:

FlightCheck scans documents and provides detailed preflight reports, so printing problems can be corrected before output. For print-ready PDF files, use FlightCheck preflight software by Markzware for document quality control.

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