Preflight and format conversion
To ensure of the highest quality of documents you receive from your customers you can easily and quickly check them. Preflihgt protects you from numerous mistakes such as missing fonts, improper color spaces, low resolution images or wrong page sizes. PuzzleFlow accepts not only PDF files but PostScript, TIFF, JPEG, CT/LW and related formats as well. Both PDF and PDF/X, as defined by ISO, are what we consider the output formats of choice.
Normalizer
Normalizer engine is a tool that conwerts the input files (PostScript, EPS, bitmaps etc.) into high quality PDF documents. Since September 2005 PuzzleFlow comes with native conversion utlity. This engine supports JDF jobtickets refering to PostScript documents, preserves OPI links and many more. For the users who are still conservative in using Acrobat Distiller – the adequate option is available.
Preflighter
Preflight prevents serious issues in your printing workflow. With this module you can detect over 100 typical mistakes with your PDF files. It cheks documents properties (such as font inclusion or color space usage) and pages properties as well (such as minimal text size, image resolution etc.). It is fully compliant with Ghent PDF Workgroup recomendation. Read more about PuzzleFlow Preflight tests.
PDF/X Maker
PDF/X Maker transforms PDF jobs into PDF/X compliant documents. The module adds PDF/X specific information to the input document and tries to apply all needed corrections. If the PDF document cannot be converted to PDF/X standard, PDF/X Maker generates detailed error report.
ToolBox
Toolbox optimizes incoming PDF files. It performs standard optimization actions such as hair-line correction, automatic black overprint, automatic white overprint removal, smoothness and flatness correction. In addition, the module utilizes idiom recognition technique and recognizes shadings, generated as a series of lines or frames, and converts them into PDF smooth shading objects. Similarly, the module can recognize images created as a series of single-row images and merge them back into single image.