We currently using QuarkXPress (4 & 5) in Classic. I purchased InDesign for all of our workstations but my people aren't making the change fast enough. But that's another story. Which preflight utility do you guys suggest? Thank you for your help in advance.
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Originally posted by fahlman
We currently using QuarkXPress (4 & 5) in Classic. I purchased InDesign for all of our workstations but my people aren't making the change fast enough. But that's another story. Which preflight utility do you guys suggest? Thank you for your help in advance.
my preflight utils are
1.tums
2.prayers
Originally posted by fahlman
We currently using QuarkXPress (4 & 5) in Classic. I purchased InDesign for all of our workstations but my people aren't making the change fast enough. But that's another story. Which preflight utility do you guys suggest? Thank you for your help in advance.
Does your prepress house support InDesign? I wish we could move to InDesign. I hate Quark!
actually i don't mind as they have all got excellent PDF to RIP workflow packages
Originally posted by dstranathan
I hate Quark!
from past discussions, i always got the impression that you were a big quark fan. perhaps i'm confusing you with somebody else.
It looks as though the new Acrobat 6 Pro could be a great way to use InDesign for layout and use PDF and Acrobat 6 for preflight related work.
This is something that I am going to be doing some research on. I just wish Quark would just die. Even the new version looks stupid. There are a couple interesting things in it but I still prefer InDesign over it anyday. I just wish the print industry wasn't so engulfed with Quark. Hopefully things will change with ACROBAT 6.
1. Flightcheck Pro (does nearly everything).
2. A couple of internet based preflighters
3. Barco (esko graphics). Probably the best but expensive.
We are also moving from Quark to InDesign tho most f our Mac ops don't want to.
Dobby.
Nah us people that do layout have to make sure everything prints right, think about it, if you 25,000 copies of your pub, and some ads or layouts print like $hit well you just lost a whole lot of money. So we pre-flight our stuff to make sure everything is fine and dandy, nowadays with external RIPS and everything and PDFS are great, but quark has gotten so rudimentay(sp) in the industry that its actually holding the entire printing industry at hostage, almost. Acrobat 6 has a OS X native distiller right? anyone mind telling me how it works and if it preflights ok? does the PDF's come out encode the fonts right? as I recall indesign wouldn't encode hardly any fonts of mine correctly...
InDesign has its own built-in preflight feature as well.
Originally posted by kraig911
rudders... check, engines... check, pilot... check, thats pre-flight
Nah us people that do layout have to make sure everything prints right, think about it, if you 25,000 copies of your pub, and some ads or layouts print like $hit well you just lost a whole lot of money. ...
I could figure that much out on my own. What does the software do? A fancy "print preview"?
Originally posted by Scott
I could figure that much out on my own. What does the software do? A fancy "print preview"?
It warns you of possible errors that may result in bad film, or plates (if you use CTP (Computer To Plate), or poor printing. Such as Missing placed images, missing fonts, images with the wrong color space (RGB instead of CMYK), Spot colors, 4/c Black, QuarkXPress file .
Just curious, what do you guys use to collect your fonts? Does InDesign do this already? And why the hell doesn't Quark?
Originally posted by Michael Grey
As a (loathsome) Quark user the one tool I can't imaging being without is CollectPro (Extensis). But this won't work for Quark 6 and Extensis has never mentioned anything about an upcoming version on its web site.
Just curious, what do you guys use to collect your fonts? Does InDesign do this already? And why the hell doesn't Quark?
you must still be using quark 4x? quark 5 has, if i remember correctly (i'm still using 4 as well), built in font collection. so i'm guessing it will be in 6 as well. flightcheck has that ability as well.