Re: My 10 Fearless Prepress Predictions for 2008
As a 2 month owner of Power Switch, let me be the first to say, it works.
You have to think outside the box. You have to put a little time into it.
However, if you have ANYONE at your company that can write the slightest
code in Java, Visual Basic, etc, it can do back flips while juggling bowling
balls. (Do not get me wrong - it is powerful without scripts as well)>
As an example. What would you think of dropping folder XXX1234 into a hot
folder. That folder contains 10 .sitx files (or more or less).
Out the other end comes my six folders. Art, originals, fonts, trash, pdfs, etc.
However, you might say, "well, what does it do with duplicates? What does
it do with fonts?"
Duplicates - it looks at the art name (homelessman_1) and the date. If the date is
the same, it passes it through. If the name is different, it takes the name of the
folder above it (BRE) and renames to BRE_Homelessman_1.
Now, when I go to link I cannot find ANY of the Homelessman_1 files
because they are renamed. If I am in a BRE, voila, I link up to the one
with BRE in front.
Fonts - Passes the ENTIRE folder through with the name of the folder it came
from - ie, BRE_Fonts. Now, it puts ALL ten font folders into one FONT folder
and I simply drag into Font Reserve Server and let it sort it out.
All of these six folders are automatically put into a single folder called XXX1234
on my server. I hook up fonts and preflight within minutes.
I have not even begun to do justice to this ONE workflow. We think of a new
one everyday. (Postal Sort - I drop in hundreds of MAIL.DAT files). Out the
other end comes zipped up files that are in batches of 9 (proper names).
All I can say is, get a demo of this program. It WILL impress you.
Chris