Adobe PressReady
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Adobe's $249 PressReady software enables less-expensive color inkjet printers to be used for color proofing in place of dye-sublimation and thermal wax color printers. The PostScript 3 raster image processor employs ICC color profiles to control color output to selected printers. Drivers for more printers will be available soon. Use of PressReady is transparent to the user. Color output from the inkjet printers is close to the quality of the output of a printing press, offering low-cost proofs that closely represent the printed product. The software includes several utilities that help keep all color devices calibrated.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 2000
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PDF and the great beyond: a wide range of plug-ins picks up where Adobe Acrobat leaves off
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Adobe Systems' Acrobat portable document software (PDF) introduced in 1993, has transformed the publishing industry, providing a file format that preserves text and graphics, but tasks such as prepress or Web formatting require more For such tasks, specialized plug-in programs are offered, from third-party developers. Hundreds of plug-ins are available, which here are organized into the following seven categories: reading plug-ins; document management plug-ins; file editing plug-ins; prepress plug-ins; workflow automation plug-ins; and publishing plug-ins.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 2000
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Adobe Photoshop 5.5/ImageReady 2.0
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Adobe Systems' Photoshop 5.5 image processing software includes the company's ImageReady 2.0 for web graphics, although the two are still separate applications. When the link to ImageReady is activated Photoshop prompts users to save the file and opens it in ImageReady with layers unflattened. Among ImageReady's features are slicing, rollovers, image maps, file size and image quality optimization, animated GIFs and style sheets. Macromedia's Fireworks 2.0 is more integrated, but it cannot match the features of the Photoshop/ImageReady combination. ImageReady's selection and image editing features rival those of Photoshop, and its advanced image-slicing functions include the ability to link slices for automated optimization. Both Photoshop and ImageReady now support lossy GIF compression, and both allow JPEG file compression to be set in precise increments. Masking difficult transition areas has been made easier by Photoshop's new Extract dialog box, Magic Eraser tool and Background Eraser tool. The Photoshop/ImageReady combination challenges Fireworks as the web graphics leader.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1999
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