OT: electronic tear sheets

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prepress wrote:
> We send our pages to a watched folder and have Acrobat distill them to a low
> resolution, composite page. Then upload them to a file server managed by
> MerlinOne. We use QuarkXpress 6.5.
>
> If you want it fully automated, there is an extension on Quark's website
> that will allow you to print the page to the RIP then it will send it to the
> same watched folder. We still have to manipulate the file name to the naming
> conventions that MerlinOne requires.
>
> Jaime
>
>   
>> Our  IT people are trying to figure out away to auto generate PDF's
>> when the Paginators print their pages to film (the paginators are all
>> on the Mac G5 doubles nontel running Tiger and the pagination
>> software is Quarky)
>>
>> The goal: have auto generated PDF's, without user interaction, upon
>> Printing the fully paginated page w/ads....the PDFS would then be
>> used electronic tear sheets to send to the customer.
>>
>> My thinking on the subject is ....simply have them export PDF's to a
>> watch folder that will copy/upload the files to a print que.
>>
>> But, how would one handle color separated pages??
>>
>> Are there other alternatives? software? how are you good people
>> handling electronic, full page tear sheets?
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
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We send our pages as postscript files to a watched folder that our 
Panther Rip monitors generating film one folder for black and white 
pages one for color then acrobat pulls from completed folder  from each 
to generate PDFs