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More wonderful news from Markzware for those
of us who use InDesign or QuarkXPress.
Markzware’s best preflighting software,
FlightCheck Professional 6, has just received a
really big upgrade to version 6.12.
For those following Markzware on Twitter.com, which has been growing quickly, there is a cool widget or badge you can embed in your blogs and on your web sites called Twittercounter. You can check out the stats of how many followers you have on Twitter and see the averages, etc. Pretty neat- they are highlighting this week one of our followers and fellow graphic designers, Imjustcreative! He is an active micro-blogger and generally very helpful with his Tweets! There are many creatives, Adobe users and printers on Twitter!
Markzware interviewed one of it’s valued customers, Mr. Valentin Ocheda and during taping, he deeply explained his usage of a neat Macintosh tool called, Default Folder X. Check out here how he uses this to semi-automate his preflight and graphic design workflow:
“Quality Control [via FlightCheck] on his desktop.”
Artist in Residence for the Mojave National Preserve, US National Park Service Promotes Awareness Through Killen’s Photographic artwork.
SANTA ANA, California, October 1 , 2008 — Markzware, the leading developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software, today announced that it will be showcasing Bob Killen, artist in residence for the Mojave National Preserve, US National Park Service photographic artwork, of our national desert resources, at Graph Expo in Chicago from October 26-29, 2008 at booth #5255.
In order to promote awareness of our national desert resources Markzware has chosen Bob Killen’s breathtaking, photographic works of art to… Continued->
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.
Over at the Markzware’s Group on Linkedin.com, the popular professional social networking site, we posted an interesting topic and question- please join in!
How do you use preflighting in your workflow?
Here is a video interview of a graphic designer and for a large part he goes over how he preflights and the tools he uses (FlightCheck, PitStop, etc): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDcH8HXZhS4
Valentin from OCHEDA Graphic Creatives recently called in with a small support question. In assisting him, I learned of his great zeal for using FlightCheck Professional on every job that he produces in QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. SO much so that we asked if we could interview him to learn more about his graphic design workflow and how he works with preflighting, PDF and DTP layout applications. Watch the English interview here:
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Earlier today we conducted a very interesting interview with a designer, which we will post tomorrow or in any event soon. He swore by FlightCheck throughout the graphic design process and always delivers to the printers an Enfocus Certified PDF- using some of the Enfocus kit to produce standards based PDFs which his customers (record labels) require… more on that story later, but it fits in with this news below nicely… (And a few simple questions for YOU at the end!)
Adobe Creative Suite 4 or CS4 has been officially announced. It appears to be an Upgrade largely focused on web and multi-media designers, yet delves into some production stream-lining as well. In this print-production area, InDesign CS4 itself does appear to have some interesting things for layout artists and preflight operators alike. Chiefly what they are now calling ‘Live Preflighting‘:
“Preflight while you design. Continuous preflighting alerts you to potential production problems in real time so you can quickly navigate to a problem, fix it directly in layout, and keep working.” SOURCE: http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/features/?view=topnew
