Publishing

Most periodic publications - like magazines, weekly newspapers, even scientific journals - are subjects of the information storm brought by the internet age. Several factors might change in a rapid pace throughout the editorial process, but absolute confidence in the material sent to the press is paramount, more than ever. Content and quality of the delivered pages are key factors for any publishing organization, and most of them already realized that moving to a completely new approach in the correction- and approval cycles is inevitable. The old-style concept of circulating PDFs for proofreading, aesthetic assessment and final approval is obsolete, since many organizations installed very strict limits on email-attachment sizes for security reasons. Beside that, commenting a PDF file requires the use of the Acrobat Professional, an expensive and resource-hungry application.

Publishers ready to take the necessary steps forward could find OmniTek's offerings compelling. By deploying SmartProof, any company can have a standalone approval and softproof portal system in a matter of minutes. Services include colour-accurate display of high-resolution RIPped page data on most internet-enabled devices like smartphones and tablets, beside ordinary computers running Windows or Mac OS X. A multi-level commenting system helps to oversee the various requests placed by users with different roles in the workflow. Comparing versions with previous uploads, measuring mechanical sizes, advertisement areas and CMYK color percentages are also very easy. Most of all, production executives can be sure that only approved pages go into production, while all requests and page alterations are archived and can be printed out for reference. SmartProof can be configured to automatically perform preflight on all submitted pages, filtering out common image- or font-related problems up front. Data delivered to press is a super-compatible, font-free flattened PDF which produces exactly the same output on a wide range of devices. First and last, SmartProof can solve many of the problems publishers face during page content completion, using minimal human and IT resources, at a very low cost.