Just saw this one come into our Product Testimonial box. A very nice one for Q2ID (QuarkXpress to Adobe InDesign conversion plugin):

Name: Susan Lafferty
Company: Broker Network Ltd
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Website: www.brokernetwork.co.uk

Product: Q2ID

Testimonial:

Superb product!! No more wasted time redoing old quark files – don’t know how I went this far without it – well worth the money! Wow!

Adobe Announces Acrobat Pro 9, Creative Suite 3.3

by Jeff Gamet, 12:05 AM EDT, June 2nd, 2008

Adobe announced Acrobat Pro 9, the next version of its PDF viewing and editing application, along with Creative Suite 3.3 on Monday. Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 will include native Flash support, enhanced collaboration tools like PDF Portfolios, improved print production tools, and support for Adobe PDF Print Engine 2.

PDF Portfolios lets Acrobat users bundle documents, images and videos together as packages with summaries, create PDF forms and collect and analyze form data without requiring IT department involvement. Portfolios are compatible with the new (in beta) Acrobat.com hosted services that support document collaboration.

Adobe Acrobat Portfolios

Acrobat Pro 9 will include new preflighting and auto correction features for print production environments. It supports RGB and CMYK conversions, spot color remapping, and overprint preview. Acrobat Pro 9 also includes an Object Inspector for reviewing the metadata associated with any selected object, can identify a wide range of differences in document versions, and offers full support for PDF/A, PDF/X, PDF/X-4p, PDF/X-5 and PDF/E.

Reviewed by Macintosh Users East.

I recently saw a video on the internet which featured a designer who had created an Adobe InDesign document that had somehow become corrupted. Eventually the file refused to open in InDesign.

Ordinarily an event like this would be disasterous to a layout artist, especially if the document were a huge commercial layout for a magazine or a book.

Since the file would not open he could not even revert to a saved copy. Instead of starting all over again the designer launched QuarkXPress (more)

Adobe InDesign’s basic built-in preflighting tools and QuarkXPress 7’s Job Jackets features offer some protection against native file problems.

For basic and small publishing jobs like the DoubleClick that never see a professional printer these built-in features suffice but for large expensive commercial publishing projects, where even your smallest mistakes can be costly, you need the insurance of a professional checker.

Markzware FlightCheck Professional 6 is the best preflighting solution around. (More)

Everyday the catalogue of QuarkXPress 7 XTensions modules is becoming larger and larger. Recently, ID2Q7 from Markzware was added to the pages of this virtual layout catalog. (Read the review PDF)