And there is no time to manually make many versions of There is no time to correct mistakes that get Our clients (educational publishers) are on very, It's not specifically because of surcharges. > this story that we are not discussing here.Īctually, our clients have pushed all of their vendors to adopt > silly final PDF file mistakes? There is a whole monetary side of > it so they need it too or their vendors are penalizing them for > because they know what they are doing or because everyone else has > comes to mind is are they being push to acquire the software > When David stated his clients have PitStops, the first thing that In one instance, they included RGB color images in a PDF when it's a two color job and then wonders what's wrong with their files. they still make a crap load of mistakes every week to drive the production manager and his vendors crazy. I know one of our subsidiary company has acquire 5-6 copies of PitStop since last year. When David stated his clients have PitStops, the first thing that comes to mind is are they being push to acquire the software because they know what they are doing or because everyone else has it so they need it too or their vendors are penalizing them for silly final PDF file mistakes? There is a whole monetary side of this story that we are not discussing here. Yes, to think of PitStop as downstream/prepress only is narrow-minded, but can you honestly see my current workflow have more usage for it aside from preflight and cropping? Considering most if not all edit/image changes will be on original files?

Which is partially why if you read my other posts in this new forum and prior one, most of my responses often reflects publisher' side of the experience rather than downstream. We are not yet in a full PDF workflow, though we are slowly adapting it. We do not expect our vendors to retouch or modify our files in any form or shape without our permission. No IFs or BUTs, if our vendor tells us something is not right, they kick it back to us for fixing. It's my job is to ensure what leaves our house are 100% press-ready.

This is prepress/production on publisher's side and everything I touch are upstream-original designer files. Perhaps I'm not using the right words here, I have always work at content provider's end. Believe me, I'm not disagreeing on the usefulness of PitStop downstream on fixing finalized PDF files.

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