Preflight and Format Conversion
To ensure the highest quality printing you need the highest quality documents. Preflighting protects you from numerous mistakes such as missing fonts, improper “color space,” low resolution images, wrong page sizes, improper TAC, 4 color black, and more. Format Conversion, or normalization means that all PuzzleFlow Solutions accept not only PDF files but PostScript, TIFF, JPEG, other formats as well. Both PDF and PDF/X, as defined by ISO, are what we consider the output formats of choice. A number of different output formats are also available, like PDF, EPS, TIFF, JPG…
Normalizer
A Normalizer engine is a tool that converts the input files (PostScript, EPS, bitmaps etc.) into high quality PDF documents. Since September 2005 PuzzleFlow has had our own native PDF conversion utility – “normalizer.” This engine also supports JDF jobticket, referencing PostScript documents, preserves OPI links and much more.
Preflighter
Preflighting catches serious issues before they are printed. PuzzleFlow preflight detects over 100 typical mistakes with your PDF files. It checks document properties (such as font inclusion or color space usage) and page properties (such as minimal text size, image resolution etc.). It is fully compliant with Ghent PDF Workgroup recommendations. Read more about PuzzleFlow Preflight tests.
Read more about PuzzleFlow Preflight tests.
PDF/X Maker
PDF/X Maker transforms PDF jobs into PDF/X compliant documents. This module adds PDF/X specific information to the input document and apples all needed corrections. If the incoming PDF document cannot be brought up to the PDF/X standard, PDF/X Maker generates a detailed error report.
Toolbox
Toolbox optimizes incoming PDF files. It performs standard optimization actions such as hair-line correction, fixing black overprint, white overprint removal, smoothness and flatness correction. In addition, the module utilizes idiom recognition techniques to identify shading that is 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 strips or boxes and merge them back into single image. And much, much more.