Pre-export software

(Preflight Software)

In the process of printing plate production, some errors will inevitably occur. The more stressful the work arrangement, the more limited the working hours, and the more minor defects appear. For this reason, and some related factors, pre-examination software will have its place. There are already many kinds of pre-screening solutions in the pre-press field. Here are some of the more popular ones. There are independent application software and plug-ins for use with other software. You can choose according to specific circumstances.

Printools XT2.1
Badia Software recently upgraded its Printools XTension for QuarkXPress to version 2.1. Printools XT2.1 not only provides an interactive real-time page preview function to document creators. The previewed print area is consistent with the area marked by the printer. In addition, the software provides a pre-export preflight tool to track the number of edits and edits. Features. Users can also set Printools XT2.1 so that it can automatically preflight before the file is exported. The software can detect issues such as file text overflow, RGB, or the use of low-resolution images that can cause file proofing problems.

PdfInspektor 2
Callas Software recently released its new generation of PDF file pre-checking software, PdfInspektor2. This software plug-in is used with Adobe Acrobat 4 or 5 to check the PDF file for characters, images, colors, and annotations, and to generate custom PDF inspection reports and predefined preflight file descriptions.

SWiNG ​​Normalizer
SWiNG's combined workflow automation and management solution includes five applications, of which SWiNG ​​Normalizer can not only pre-check files entering the workflow, but also generate new files based on format requirements and forward these files to other workflows. Go or save these documents. Users can use the InputFiles function of SWiNG ​​Normalizer to convert the input document into a pending document and define how the document entering the process is to be examined. Then, the PS/PDF tool in this solution can pre-check the PDF1.3 documents and PS1, 2, 3 levels of documents according to user-defined parameters. This feature of the software can generate preflight information and a customized defect-free document for outputting documents in PS, DCS2.0, PDF1-3, or TIFF-IT/P1 format.

Preflight Pro
The Preflight Pro plug-in from Extensis Products Group supports the following major application software: QuarkXPress, Macromedia