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Help with proofing automation/Tech

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April 30, 2023
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We publish calendars. In our current workflow, our customers download a ID or Publisher template that shows what areas they can personalize. They export their work as PDFs, and we manually import it into a unique file that we created for them, and then send them a proof.

I am looking for ideas/technology advice on how we can do the following.
Have a portal where the customer can upload the PDF and see a proof without us needing to manually import it to ID, and by extension if they approve it, it should merge with a PDF we made for them that we can then send to the printer.

Any and all ideas/solutions are appreciated. I am sure the tech is out there, but it's really not my specialty.

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Peter Spier

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I used to work for this company doing tech support: https://santacruzsoftware.com/printui/

It may be more expensive than you have in mind, but it's an amazing program for allowing your clients to customize InDesign templates that you create.

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Calendars2025Author

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I have been trying to get in touch with them for a week with no luck. It
looks like it should do what I need.

Does it allow for image uploading as well, or just text editing? And does
it work on multi page documents?

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Outreach Publishing
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Peter Spier

Community Expert

I can't speak to current capabilities, but editable images were certainly something that could be included when I was an employee.

Loic.Aigon

Legend

Have you considered Enfocus solutions? You can have online submission to an automated workflow where the proof can be automatically assembled. Then the file can be sent to an online validation platform and once the customer approved, the file is sent back to the production workflow for print.

Feel free to get in touch in private for further details.

Loic

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

You might want to take a look at PrintUI; I don't think it's what you're looking for at all, but it's in the same neighborhood.

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Calendars2025Author

Participant

This is interesting. Thank you!

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Have a look at PowerPoint.

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Calendars2025Author

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Microsoft PowerPoint, or is there another one out there? How would MPP help with viewing PF proofs etc?

Derek Cross

Community Expert

I assumed you wanted your customer to be able to change your artwork, but that they didn't have InDesign. If you created print ready artwork in PowerPoint the customer could make the changes as most people have the application. PowerPoint is a much-improved application that is very versatile now. Just a thought.

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