QuarkXPress's Powerful Print File Pre-Flighting

Quark announced yesterday that Markzware is the latest partner to create on-demand creative systems based on QuarkXPress Server 7.

Quark announced yesterday that Markzware is the latest partner to create on-demand creative systems based on QuarkXPress Server 7.

Flightcheck Online is a web-based, quality-control and file-delivery system that is claimed to enable quick communication amongst senders and receivers of digital files to ensure they conform to print-ready specifications.

QuarkXPress Server 7 is said to combine the design, power and collaboration functions of QuarkXPress with server-based performance to help software developers and system integrators meet needs in specific markets.

Quark claimed that Flightcheck Online and QuarkXPress Server 7 combine to create a powerful on-line pre-flighting system that allows customers to pre-qualify QuarkXPress files before delivering them for printing.

Flightcheck Online checks the files against customised pre-flight rule sets defined by the output provider.

David Dilling of Markzware, said: "We are excited to incorporate the benefits of QuarkXPress Server 7 in to our technology to deliver superior quality-assurance, data-conversion, and workflow systems to our customers.

We are looking forward to developing fresh, new technologies with Quark well in to the future." Nick Howard, Quark's director of enterprise products, commented: "Quark is thrilled to see our partners exploiting the creative power of QuarkXPress Server to develop both web-based and data-driven applications, providing a custom, dynamic publishing system to its customers.

Markzware has demonstrated that it is a leader in the publishing industry and we are proud to support it in providing on-demand creative communications." Flightcheck Online is said to be designed to deliver a QuarkXPress project with all the correct fonts and images in place.

If an error does occur in the file during pre-flight, the application immediately alerts the sender using the sender's web browser.

When the file is ready for further processing, Flightcheck Online uploads the file to the server, decompresses it, automatically loads the specific required fonts and outputs the job through QuarkXPress Server.

Dilling added: "Users are able to publish their documents in an error free, print ready PDF format because the QuarkXPress project has been fully pre-flighted and all elements needed for successful output have been incorporated in to the job.

Users can create PDFs in low-resolution, or high-resolution versions for proofing and production.".

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