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• Beyond Publishable: Turning Microsoft Publisher Documents in Print-Ready Content
Dave Matthews heads up the prepress department at Progressive Printing, a Martinsburg, WV commercial printing facility. Long plagued by Microsoft Publisher files submitted by a typical (in the commercial print world) customer base that’s ill-equipped and uneducated in the process of preparing digital content for print, Matthews discovered Markzware’s PUB2ID plug-in.

• Markzware’s Q2ID Plugin Review by Lauren Marie
Back when I wrote the Quark for InDesign Users articles, I was approached by Markzware, a company that makes several Quark and InDesign plugins. I know the folks over at InDesign Secrets love plugins, but I’ve never used any myself.

• Random Markzware T-Shirt Sighting- Boston
A random, likely graphic commuincations worker, walking down the nostalgic streets of Boston (Near Portland St.), Massachusetts, wearing his Markzware preflighting (Are you printing or still fixing bad PDF files) t-shirt loud and proud!

• Preflighting 101 - Part 4; Inspecting a Document & Job Packaging
Last week we covered a very important step that should be done before using FlightCheck Professional to preflight jobs which was about the Ground Controls in a post titled, “Preflighting 101 - Part 3; FLIGHTCHECK Professional v6 Concepts- a. Ground Controls”.

• Italian Storm on the Mediterranean
In this Markzware adventure, we see what was a mirror like Mediterranean sea the day before, turn into an angry, aggressive one. This was shot in Cecina, Italy which is near Mazzanta and Vada in Tuscany.

• Preflighting 101 - Part 3; FLIGHTCHECK Professional v6 Concepts- a. Ground Controls
Earlier this month, we presented you part three in a series of posts on preflighting titled, “Preflighting 101 - Part 2; Common Issues- Layout Problems.” Today we dive into more specifics on a electronic preflighting software in the form of, no surprise, FlightCheck Professional v6.

• Using FlightCheck Professional to compare documents
This is a great, often overlooked, feature of FlightCheck Professional v6- the ability to open or preflight two (or more) documents at a time. This allows you to very effectively compare the two and see the differences, if any.

• The Ideal Preflight Workflow
If I am going to preflight, how do I do it? What criteria will I use, and where in the workflow should preflight occur? The answer: At every stage of the workflow. Native files should be verified before a document is converted to PDF.

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