Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software was created with the specific needs of print service providers in mind. The most comprehensive version of Adobe Acrobat ever produced has been tailored to give you the tools needed to meet both your daily file processing needs as well as the challenges faced by the print industry. Based on feedback solicited from creative and print/prepress professionals, Adobe built many new features into Acrobat 7.0 Professional for them, including reliable, predictable output options; preflighting; the ability to preview and print color separations and transparency; control over spot colors; and the tools to create and validate PDF/X compliance.


An example Adobe PDF file with both the Separation Preview and the Loupe tool activated . Note the red circle on the building. The Loupe tool is magnifying the circle by 360% making it clearly visible in the Loupe tool window. Because the Loupe tool cursor is positioned on the circle (note where the arrow is pointing) the information at that point is displayed in the Separation Preview dialog box. You can see that the circle is a 45% tint of PMS 711. You can also see that at that point the color is 32% Cyan, 25% Magenta, 23% Yellow, and 21% Black. The square boxes on the left side of the Separation Preview palette hide and show plates and switch spot to process views. The pointing arrow is PMS 7406 and is now shown as process, indicated by the process designation replacing the X in the adjacent box.

Print professionals fear finding mistakes that cause them to stop the press, or cause a bottleneck at the RIP due to improperly created PDF files. New preflighting tools in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional such as the new Separation Preview and Transparency Flattener Preview provide you with tools to perform thorough virtual inspections of Adobe PDF documents.

What You Thing About Quark XPress 6.5?

QuarkXPress 6.5 update

QuarkXPress® 6 software brought projects and layers, synchronized text, multiple undo, tables, and more. QuarkXPress 6.5 augments some of these features and provides even more enhancements that help to increase productivity, save time, and take advantage of the newest technologies. And for a limited time, as a registered QuarkXPress 6.5 user, can download a font package with more than 40 OpenType® fonts from Linotype®.

The enhancements make:

• Import native Adobe® Photoshop documents (.psd files) into QuarkXPress and exploit the power of multi-layer Photoshop images without leaving QuarkXPress.
• Place guides on a master page’s pasteboard and display them automatically in your layout.
• Group tables with other QuarkXPress items including other tables, picture boxes, and text boxes.
• Customize printing features such as saving output settings for custom bleeds as print styles.
• Simplify IT management with support for Citrix servers and run the application off a server instead of an individual user’s computer.

Import native Adobe® Photoshop documents (.psd files).