The companies will target workflow improvements, and QuarkAlliance partners will get reduced-price access to Enfocus products, such as Instant PDF.On Tuesday Quark Inc. announced that it has entered a strategic alliance with Enfocus Software, a developer of PDF workflow products, to enhance creation of Certified PDFs.
According to Quark and Enfocus, the two companies are collaborating to streamline Certified PDF-based workflows and to improve the PDF workflow process in general. Quark, of Denver, already has taken other steps toward improved PDF workflow functionality in its publishing products. In late March, the company announced that it had joined the Ghent PDF Workgroup, an international organization formed to establish standards in publishing workflows.
Enfocus makes PitStop Professional, an Adobe Acrobat plug-in that provides PDF auto-correction, editing and preflight capabilities, and Instant PDF, a PDF workflow solution that enables users to prepare printer-ready Certified PDF files.
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"True Certified PDF consistency is one of the next major hurdles facing the publishing industry, [and] Quark will continue to work with companies that will help win this battle for the publishing professional," said Jürgen Kurz, senior vice president of software development at Quark. He said that Enfocus PDF workflow technologies will complement his company's signature product, QuarkXPress.
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