What is Adobe Acrobat InProduction?

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More and more designers are sending documents to commercial printers in Adobe's PDF format. With cross-platform functionality and a small file size, PDF helps streamline workflow and reduce processing time — but only when it’s used correctly. Adobe created InProduction to debug PDF files and to give design and prepress folks greater control over trapping, trimming and bleeding, and other print issues.

Among InProduction’s five main tools — Preflight, Trim/Bleed, Color Converter, Adobe in-RIP Trapping, and Separator — Preflight will benefit the majority of users. Preflight uses a printer's PPD to build a profile, which includes such information as printer-resident fonts and optimized screen frequency. Once you’ve created a profile, you can send it to others who want to print PDF files to that printer.

When converting a project into PDF format, people often fail to embed the fonts within the document. InProduction solves that problem by embedding missing PostScript, Type 1, and TrueType fonts.

Preflight found a total of five errors and gave us two warnings on our simple, one-page document containing one art element and two copy blocks. It fixed three of the errors automatically and explained, step-by-step, how to address the rest.

This software comes with a big price tag, but it's a good investment for people who regularly send PDF files for commercial printing.

Guigar, Brad J. (October 2000). InProduction. MacAddict. (pg. 61).

Download Adobe Acrobat InProduction for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.5 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver