REMOTE PROOFING -- Approved On-site

Customers typically use soft proofing to check for type rewraps, typos, correct fonts, color breaks, high-res file swapping, bleeds and the positioning of objects, Buczek says. Ensuring file integrity does present some challenges, he admits, since the proofing files are not used to output film. At the Holden companies, PostScript files are first converted to PDFs (using Acrobat Distiller), which then can be imported by Imagexpo.