From the show floor of PRINT 09, we post you this interesting film-

Xerox DirectMail on the “Prepress for Digital Printing” Book and retro FlightCheck; a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkj70fyy-CI

Transcript:
How many of you remember this one? Why fight it, preflight it! With FlightCheck. Now this is an old one, going a little bit retro here. I don’t know from when this was exactly, probably about 1999 and maybe even earlier, like 97, or 1996 But anyway that brings us to the next subject of today which is a little letter I got a nice direct mail piece, nice to see that. Not only was it a direct mail piece it was personalized and it came from no other than Xerox.

BREAKING- since this video was made, FlightCheck 6.5 with QuarkXPress 8 and CS4 or Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat and thus PDF support is now shipping! Save one hundred when purchasing here!

Somewhere along the line this Monday morning an email came in about a new creation, conversion and exporting solution from Global Graphics called gDoc Fusion (Windows only). Here is what it is in short:

Launching May 18th
gDoc™ Fusion
The easiest way to quickly create, join, and edit PDF, XPS and Word documents for sharing, printing or collaboration.

Yet (See their Quick Convert module) another example on how important, useful and needed conversion tools can be to the document workflow (See Markzware’s document conversion tools here.). This affordable tool at only 99 Euros/USD also offers PDF editing and re-assembly:

Page View – edit PDF with the context-sensitive toolbar
Use the Page View to read and modify individual PDF pages. With smart, context-sensitive text selection, just click and drag to copy, highlight or edit text, even redact – just choose from the floating toolbar.
The Page View is also where you can also add or edit sticky notes and bookmarks to your PDF, or use text search and replace.  Read more... (308 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)