1.3.
Purpose of use: To whom is EXTIF pro useful?
EXTIF pro
is mainly used in the printing industry and its’ surrounding fields, e.g. Prepress, Repro and Graphic Design, and also in exposure services, advertising agencies and translation offices working for customers from countries that do not
use Latin characters but, for instance, Cyrillic or Chinese symbols.
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As
already mentioned, EXTIF pro provides exposure-ready image file from all programs / applications such as the
following:
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MS Word
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Internet Explorer
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PowerPoint
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Adobe Acrobat
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Excel
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Adobe PhotoShop
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Paintshop Pro
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Corel Draw
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Netscape
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etc., etc...
Among which EXTIF pro proves its performance most
accurately when used with MS Office applications.
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In this process, EXTIF pro converts, if required, the graphical
information or image data from RGB color
space (Red Green Blue) into CMYK
color space (Cyan Magenta Yellow BlacK), i.e. it builds color separations,
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If required – this feature being internationally unique for a Virtual Printer Driver – automatically
adds crop margins along with crop marks, register
crosses and color wedges
(generic term: Imprints). Optionally, EXTIF pro also takes care of the “Trimming Problem.
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In particular, Graphic Design studios mostly don’t use Windows-PCs,
but Apple Mac’s. Since TIFF format is familiar to both types of computers and
operating systems, EXTIF pro bridges the gap between the Windows and Mac
worlds.
Example: A customer comes to you
asking to convert a 300-page MS Word document into book form, but your exposure
devices and printing machines operate under Mac. No problem, using EXTIF pro
you simply transform the MS Word document into TIFF files and transfer them
onto your Mac.
But EXTIF pro is also extremely suitable even when it comes to digital archiving,
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For instance, when you wish to "freeze" important documents
like bills, contracts or quarterly reports (which you send to your customers or
co-workers on printed paper), in the form of a “snapshot” for your internal archives – contrary to an
unrastered file format, it is almost impossible to unintentionally modify the image file, just as hard as it is to
modify a printed sheet of paper, and even doing so deliberately would take an
enormous effort.
Such a digital archive does not
therefore require a storeroom, paper or printing ink and due to the search
functions of Windows Explorer, is significantly more user-friendly and easy to manage.
Further possible modes of application:
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In the case that you develop software yourself that implements a
printing functionality, EXTIF pro can be extremely useful for you by saving
expensive color cartridges during testing phase.
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In case you actually need the graphic image files in
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less common file formats like *.png
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or non-loss-freely compressed file formats
like *.jpg
Then EXTIF pro will bring you one
step nearer to your goal.