Hamilton--An Issue of Compatibility

The real question is how, or to what extent, can the prepress service supplier control the tools used by the content creator. Wouldn't it be cool if you could make clients' applications bark out one of those "Danger, Will Robinson!" warnings whenever they attempt to do something that won't output or print correctly. Clearly, applications such as Markzware FlightCheck and Enfocus PitStop are steps in the right direction, but they are reactive; that is, they tell the client after the fact that the images are in RGB or that fonts are missing.