Hi Gretchen and gang of the CTF Forum , ( copying the Scribus list so the guys will have a testimony)
IMHO , as long as the actual DTP applications ( Quark, Adobe, Corel and others...) dont produce 100% of the times a flawless PDF, why not taking a time to look at Scribus, www.scribus.org.uk , it is GNU, Linux and Mac OS X , its pretty good ( surely it will not fill ALL your needs but it is evolving very fast ) and Scribus produces very good PDF files since version 1.0 ( up to now I was unable to produce a bad PDF with it ). >It seems to me that it's a no-brainer for content creators to want to >accept the responsibility for the integrity (and subsequent success) of >the digital files they prepare for print. But it never ceases to amaze me >that there are still so many native application files being trafficked >around with content creators sending them out to their manufacturing >partners without so much as a preflight. Almost all of this pre-flight applications doesnt "interpretes" the file, they just "check", its not vendor talk , plase take a look at DALiM - SWiNG www.dalim.com and you will see some very nice explanations about . > To complicate things further, we're now seeing a lot of content creators > take on the task of conversion of native app files to garden-variety PDFs > (many of which are flawed, according to the printers I've spoken with). It is exactly where Scribus have a great advantage over all other DTP packages, with the native XML file format and the native PDF output. >But the problem is, if they have not verified the integrity of the native >app file, those errors will continue to wreak havoc in the PDF file. My >message in the article I've been writing is that, as a content creator, it >better serves you (it's cheaper, faster and easier) to catch and fix >errors at the native application stage--NOT once the file has been >distilled to a PDF. One way , again IMHO , to have the content creator running safe is with a close partnership , integrated in the environment of the pre-press or pre-media. One of the ways to do that is then your partner have DALiM - DiALOGUE, www.dalim.com a web-based submission and preflight system. Regards to ALL, Celio Santos celio at electronic.srv.br Electronic Imaging Integration Ltda. www.electronic.srv.br
