Proactive Preflighting

Markzware is moving its preflighting efforts onto the Internet—proof being the company's recently introduced MarkzNet, a Web-based preflighting application that uses drag-and-drop tools to preflight digital files.

Extensis, also moving to the Internet, has launched Preflight Online, a Web-based preflighting system that allows users to inspect PDF files for dozens of potential problems with fonts, colors and images by dragging the files into a Web browser and clicking a button. Good news: Preflight Online requires no special client software and is free to the end user. Instead of printers having to wait for files to arrive from customers in order to preflight them, the preflighting happens on-line as part of the file submission process.