Quite Revealing

Extremely easy to use, Quite Revealing is designed for pre-press professionals, and those producing files for press use (much as we hate to admit it, if you don't work in design for press, or pre-press, or don't know what pre-press is, this plug-in probably won't help you).

It aims to show information that is otherwise difficult to find about a PDF document. Information like the plates used, exactly where fonts are used, transparency, overprinting and more. This information is often difficult to find when your preflight tools have produced a report that tells you what is wrong with the file but not where. That's where Quite Revealing comes in.

But Quite Revealing goes further than that. It can also fix some of the more awkward problems that can arise - like differently named spot plates, unwelcome transfer functions, or ICC profiles that don't belong.

Features

Quite Revealing is a plug-in for Adobe’s Acrobat from Quite Software.

Its features include:
Find:

• Colour issues (Spot, Process and RGB)
• ICC Profiles
• Fonts
• Transparency
• Overprinting
• Halftones
• Transfer Functions

Fix:

• Rename, recolour or combine Spot plates
• Convert Spot to process
• remove halftones
• remove or apply Transfer
• Remove ICC Profiles, RGB and Process tagging.

The central control panel and one button fixes make this plug-in an uncomplicated and easy plug-in to use.

Is Quite Revealing a pre-flight tool?

We prefer to think of Quite Revealing as "post pre-flight"! There is a lot of good pre-flight software around now, which will tell you quickly what documents have problems. Quite Revealing's strengths are in showing you where the problems lie - for fixing them, for working around them, or for deciding who is to blame.....