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Output Factory Server for InDesign Is Now Available for Sale on MacUpdate

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Zevrix Solutions announces that Output Factory Server for Adobe InDesign is now available for direct purchase on MacUpdate under its Enhanced Product Pages program. Output Factory Server automates printing and exporting from InDesign by processing files from watched hot folders. The software offloads output tasks to a central system leaving operator workstations free from conversion process, and offers batch output, export as single pages, email notifications, layer versioning and more.

Toronto (ON), Canada — Zevrix Solutions announces that its Output Factory Server for Adobe InDesign is now available for direct purchase on MacUpdate under its Enhanced Product Pages program. Developed originally for a major magazine publisher in the United States to free up their operator computers from outputting InDesign files, the software automates InDesign workflow by processing files from watched hot folders.

“Output Factory Server is an extremely useful utility for a busy production facility, advertising agency or publishing house”, writes David Creamer in Adobe Layers magazine. “With its straightforward user experience and useful options it can save lots of time – which equates to money.”

MacUpdate began in 1996 as a forum for Mac enthusiasts to discuss and track Mac software updates and releases. Now, over a million users discover, discuss, try and purchase over 40,000 apps from over 6,000 developers. The new Enhanced Product Pages Program creates an easy way for MacUpdate members to purchase Output Factory Server in just one click directly from its existing MacUpdate listing.

Under Output Factory Server workflow, production artists, prepress operators and designers simply copy InDesign jobs to hot folders that reside on a network. Users can create hot folders for different types of output such as hi-res PDF, large format printing, EPUB files and so on. The software offers the following key features:

–Print and export InDesign files automatically from watched hot folders
-Support for print, PDF, PostScript, EPS, JPEG, Flash, HTML and other formats
-Supports unlimited users on a network
–Export as single pages
-Layer versioning
-Variable output file names
-Preflight files before output
–Automatic e-mail notifications of process stages and errors

Pricing and Availability:
Output Factory Server can be purchased from form MacUpdate for $699.95, as well as from Zevrix website and authorized resellers. Trial version is also available for download. Output Factory requires Mac OS X 10.7-10.11 and Adobe InDesign CS5-CC 2015.

About Zevrix Solutions
Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Cloud software, PDF and graphic file diagnostics, file delivery and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix Solutions is dedicated to helping professionals achieve more while doing less through automating their everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit http://www.zevrix.com.

Contact:
Leo Revzin
Owner
Zevrix Solutions
105 McCAUL St, Suite 301
Toronto Ontario M5T 2X4 Canada
858-206-0607
media@zevrix.com

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Output Factory for InDesign Improves Flash SWF and PostScript Export

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Zevrix Solutions announces Output Factory 1.5.44, a maintenance update to its output automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Output Factory automates printing, exporting, preflighting and file delivery from InDesign. The software offers an array of time saving options such as batch processing, export as single pages, variable file names, layer versioning, PDF preflight, FTP delivery and more. The new version improves the reliability of InDesign file conversion to PostScript and Flash SWF formats.

Toronto (ON), Canada (February 20, 2016) — Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of Output Factory 1.5.44, a maintenance update to its solution to automate printing, exporting and preflighting from Adobe InDesign. Output Factory lets printers, ad agencies and publishing houses worldwide automate and simplify their output workflow and easily repurpose InDesign files for the web and mobile devices.

The new version addresses an issue in which a non-proportional page scale in output settings wasn’t honored when saving InDesign documents as PostScript files on some systems. In addition, the update ensures that HTML documents created during the Flash SWF export are being included in the delivery batch when users opt to send output files to FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and other remote servers after processing.

“Output Factory has been the single biggest time-saver I’ve encountered in years of print production,” says Mike Agate, Production Manager of Which?, Europe’s largest consumer rights organization. “With the reduction in head count and efficiency savings, it must have paid for itself 500 times over.”

With Output Factory users only need to select InDesign files, adjust workflow settings, and the software will do the rest automatically – while built-in preflighting ensures that no output errors are left unnoticed. The program supports all popular output formats and offers the following key features:

–Output multiple InDesign files with a single click
-Supports print, PDF, PostScript, JPEG, TIFF, HTML and other formats
–Export as single pages
–Layer versioning
-Output to several formats at once
-Variable output file names
-Insert text from InDesign file into output name
–Automatic preflight
-Detailed output history

Pricing and Availability:
Output Factory can be purchased from Zevrix website for US$169.95 (Light version $120, Server $700), as well as from authorized resellers and Adobe Exchange. Trial is also available for download. BatchOutput users can upgrade to Output Factory for $85. Output Factory requires Mac OS X 10.7-10.11 and Adobe InDesign CS3-CC 2015.

About Zevrix Solutions
Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF workflows, graphic file diagnostics, file delivery and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals increase their profits through automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit http://www.zevrix.com.

Contact:
Leo Revzin
Owner
Zevrix Solutions
105 McCAUL St, Suite 301
Toronto Ontario M5T 2X4 Canada
858-206-0607
media@zevrix.com

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Output Factory for Adobe InDesign Introduces PDF Security Automation

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Zevrix Solutions announces Output Factory 1.5.21, a feature update to its output automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Output Factory automates printing, exporting and preflighting from InDesign, and offers batch processing, export as single pages, variable file names, layer versioning, PDF preflight, file delivery, output history and more. The new version lets users automate creation of secure PDF documents with password protection, encryption, copy and print restriction, and other options.

Toronto (ON), Canada (June 6, 2015) — Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of Output Factory 1.5.21, a feature update to its solution to automate printing, exporting and preflighting from Adobe InDesign. Output Factory automates and simplifies workflows of printers, prepress bureaus, ad agencies and publishing houses worldwide by offering batch processing with powerful and time-saving output options.

The new version allows to incorporate PDF security options into workflow settings, thus letting users create batches of secure PDF files with just a click of a button. Output Factory is the only tool that can automate this process as even InDesign’s built-in PDF export presets don’t allow users to store the security features. Output Factory offers all the PDF security methods available from Adobe, such as password protection, encryption, and restriction of printing, copying and editing.

“Output Factory is now a tool in our arsenal we couldn’t do without,” says Tony Rose, Vice President of Creative Services at Flynn Wright ad agency in Des Moines, Iowa. “Within the first day of use we realized its potential and have incorporated it into several of our workflows. Great product!”

Users can work with other programs while Output Factory continues to output InDesign documents in the background, or let the software do all of the heavy lifting while they go out for dinner, or even home for the night. The program supports printing as well as exporting to PDF, PostScript, EPS, Flash, EPUB and other formats. It offers the following key features:

–Batch output of InDesign files
-Export as single pages
–Layer versioning
-Output to several formats at once
-Variable output file names
-Automatic preflight
-Detailed output history

Pricing and Availability:
Output Factory can be purchased from Zevrix website for US$169.95 (Light version $120, Server $700), as well as from authorized resellers and Adobe Exchange. Trial is also available for download. BatchOutput users can upgrade to Output Factory for $85. Output Factory requires Mac OS X 10.6-10.10 and Adobe InDesign CS3-CC 2014.

About Zevrix Solutions

Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF workflows, graphic file diagnostics, file delivery and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals increase their profits through automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit http://www.zevrix.com.

Contact:
Leo Revzin
Owner
Zevrix Solutions
105 McCAUL St, Suite 301
Toronto Ontario M5T 2X4 Canada
858-206-0607
media@zevrix.com

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Output Factory for Adobe InDesign Improves HTML Export, File Naming

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Zevrix Solutions announces Output Factory 1.5.10, a maintenance update to its professional solution to automate output from Adobe InDesign. Output Factory automates printing, exporting and post-processing from InDesign and offers batch processing, export as single pages, variable file names, layer versioning, preflighting, processing history and more. The new version improves handling of variable file names as well as web resources folders created during HTML export.

Toronto (ON), Canada (October 9, 2014) — Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of Output Factory 1.5.10, a maintenance update to its professional solution to automate printing, exporting and post-processing from Adobe InDesign. Output Factory automates and simplifies workflows of printers, prepress bureaus, ad agencies and publishing houses worldwide by offering batch processing with powerful and time-saving output options.

The new version extends the ability to add leading zeros to page numbers in variable output file names when exporting the entire InDesign document as a single file. The update also ensures that web resources folders created during HTML export are named after the source InDesign file instead of assigning them a temporary number.

“Output Factory is invaluable to a designer,” says Bill Bowman of the Commercial Print Craft printing company in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. “It makes the ‘grunt-work’ a lot less painful so I can go back to doing what I like best… design!”

With Output Factory users only need to select InDesign files, adjust workflow settings, and the software will do the rest automatically. The program supports printing as well as exporting to PDF, PostScript, EPS, Flash, INX, IDML, EPUB, INDD and several image formats. It offers the following key features:

–Output batches of InDesign files with a single click
–Export as single pages
-Output to several formats at once
-Layer versioning: output layer combinations as single files
-Update modified links automatically
-Variable output file names
–Preflight InDesign files before processing and skip errors
-Detailed output history

Pricing and Availability:
Output Factory can be purchased from Zevrix website for US$169.95 (Light version $119.95, Server $700), as well as from authorized resellers and Adobe Exchange. Trial is also available for download. BatchOutput users can upgrade to Output Factory for $84.97. Output Factory is available for Mac OS X 10.6-10.9 and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CC 2014.

About Zevrix Solutions

Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF workflows, graphic file diagnostics, file delivery and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals increase their profits through automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit http://www.zevrix.com.

Contact:
Leo Revzin
Owner
Zevrix Solutions
105 McCAUL St, Suite 301
Toronto Ontario M5T 2X4 Canada
858-206-0607
media@zevrix.com

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Output Factory Server for Adobe InDesign Now Supports CC 2014 Release

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Zevrix Solutions announces Output Factory Server 1.0.17, a compatibility update to its output workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Output Factory Server automates printing and exporting from InDesign by processing files from hot folders. The software offloads output tasks to a central system leaving operator workstations free from the output process. The new version makes Output Factory Server compatible with the 2014 release of InDesign CC featured as part of Adobe Creative Cloud.

Toronto (ON), Canada (July 17, 2014) — Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of Output Factory Server 1.0.17, a compatibility update to its solution to automate printing, exporting and post-processing from Adobe InDesign. Developed originally for a major magazine publisher in the United States to free up their operator computers from outputting InDesign files, the software automates InDesign workflow by processing files from watched hot folders.

The new version makes Output Factory Server compatible with the recently announced 2014 release of InDesign CC, featured as part of Adobe Creative Cloud. The update is offered free of charge to Output Factory Server users. The same version of Output Factory Server can be used with any version of InDesign from CS3 and later.

“Output Factory Server is an extremely useful utility for a busy production facility or advertising agency”, writes David Creamer in Layers magazine, “It can save lots of time – which equates to money.”

Under Output Factory Server workflow, production artists, prepress operators and designers simply copy InDesign jobs to hot folders that reside on a network. Users can create hot folders for any type of output – for example hi-res PDF, large format printing, EPUB files and so on. Output Factory Server offers the following key features:

–Print and export InDesign files automatically from watched hot folders
-Support for print, PDF, PostScript, EPS, JPEG, Flash, EPUB and other formats
–Export InDesign files as single pages
–Layer versioning
-Variable output file names
-Preflight files before output
-Automatic e-mail notifications
-Serves unlimited users on a network

Pricing and Availability:
Output Factory Server can be purchased from Zevrix web site for US$699.95, as well as from authorized resellers. Trial is also available for download. BatchOutput Server users can upgrade for $350. Output Factory Server runs on Mac OS X 10.6-10.9 and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CC 2014.

About Zevrix Solutions

Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF and graphic file diagnostics, file delivery and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix Solutions is dedicated to helping professionals achieve more while doing less through automating their everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit http://www.zevrix.com.

Contact:
Leo Revzin
Owner
Zevrix Solutions
105 McCAUL St, Suite 301
Toronto Ontario M5T 2X4 Canada
858-206-0607
media@zevrix.com

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Output Factory for InDesign Improves Alternate Layouts Output

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Zevrix Solutions announces Output Factory 1.4.21, a maintenance update to its professional solution to automate output from Adobe InDesign. Output Factory automates printing, exporting and post-processing from InDesign and offers batch output, export as single pages, variable file names, layer versioning, preflighting, detailed history and more. The new version lets users output specific alternate layouts and export them as single pages by including layout names directly in page range string.

Toronto (ON), Canada (January 28, 2014) — Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of Output Factory 1.4.21, a maintenance update to its professional automation solution for printing, exporting and post-processing from Adobe InDesign. Output Factory automates and simplifies workflows of printers, prepress bureaus, ad agencies and publishing houses worldwide by offering batch processing with powerful and versatile output options.

The new version lets users output specific alternate layouts and export them as single pages by including layout names directly in the page range field. Alternate layouts allow users to create different page sizes for print or digital publishing within the same document. For example, to create different sizes of a print advertisement. Or to design the horizontal and vertical layouts for devices such as the Apple iPad or Android tablets.

“Output Factory is invaluable to a designer,” says Bill Bowman of the Commercial Print Craft printing company in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. “It makes the ‘grunt-work’ a lot less painful so I can go back to doing what I like best… design!”

Output Factory supports printing as well as exporting to PDF, PostScript, EPS, Flash, INX, IDML, EPUB, INDD and several image formats. It offers the following key features:

–Output batches of InDesign files
-Export as single pages
–Layer versioning: output layer combinations as single files
-Output to several formats at once
-Update modified links automatically
-Variable output file names
–Preflight InDesign and final PDF files

Pricing and Availability

Output Factory can be purchased from Zevrix website for US$169.95 (Light version $119.95), as well as from authorized resellers. Trial is also available for download. BatchOutput users can upgrade to Output Factory for $84.97. Output Factory is available for Mac OS X 10.5-10.8 on Intel-based Macs and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CC.

About Zevrix Solutions

Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF workflows, graphic file diagnostics, file delivery and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals increase their profits through automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit http://www.zevrix.com.

Contact:
Leo Revzin
Owner
Zevrix Solutions
105 McCAUL St, Suite 301
Toronto Ontario M5T 2X4 Canada
858-206-0607
media@zevrix.com

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Zevrix Releases Output Factory Server for Adobe InDesign

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Zevrix Solutions announces Output Factory Server, a new output workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Output Factory Server automates printing and exporting from InDesign by processing files from watched hot folders and is a major upgrade of the company’s program BatchOutput Server. Output Factory Server offloads InDesign’s output to a central system leaving operator workstations free from the output process. It offers layer versioning, email notifications, preflighting and more.

Toronto (ON), Canada (November 5, 2013) — Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of Output Factory Server, a new solution to automate printing, exporting and post-processing from Adobe InDesign. Developed originally for a major magazine publisher in the United States, the software automates InDesign workflow by processing files from watched hot folders.

Under Output Factory Server workflow, production artists, prepress operators and designers simply copy InDesign jobs to hot folders that reside on a network. Users can create hot folders for any type of output – for example, hi-res PDF, large format printing, EPUB files and so on. The program automatically outputs the files from its dedicated station using hot folder settings, and will auto-activate document fonts as well. Operator workstations will never again be tied up by the output process. The workflow also ensures that correct output settings will be always used.

Output Factory Server offers the following key features:

–Process InDesign files automatically from watched hot folders
-Support for printing, PDF, PostScript, EPS, JPEG, Flash, EPUB and other formats
–Export InDesign files as single pages
–Layer versioning: output specific layers and their combinations as single files
-Update modified links automatically
-Variable output file names
-Preflight files before output
-Automatic e-mail notifications of process stages and errors
-Send final files to FTP, Amazon S3 and other locations

Output Factory Server also allows for a single set of output settings for an entire workgroup, solving problems caused by inconsistent settings across workstations and dramatically simplifying support tasks.

Pricing and Availability:
Output Factory Server can be purchased from Zevrix web site for US$699.95, as well as from authorized resellers. Trial is also available for download. BatchOutput Server users can upgrade for $349.97. Output Factory Server runs on Mac OS X 10.6-10.9 and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CC.

About Zevrix Solutions

Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF and graphic file diagnostics, file delivery and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix Solutions is dedicated to helping professionals achieve more while doing less through automating their everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit http://www.zevrix.com.

Contact:
Leo Revzin
Owner
Zevrix Solutions
105 McCAUL St, Suite 301
Toronto Ontario M5T 2X4 Canada
858-206-0607
media@zevrix.com

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Zevrix Updates Output Factory for InDesign: Improves HTML Workflow

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Zevrix Solutions announces Output Factory 1.3.19, a feature update to its professional output automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Output Factory automates printing, exporting and post-processing from InDesign and offers batch printing, single page export, layer versioning, variable file names, preflighting and more. The new version lets users apply specific HTML export settings across a batch of InDesign documents in addition to the option to export each file with its current HTML settings.

Toronto (ON), Canada – May 27, 2013 — Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of Output Factory 1.3.19, a feature update to its professional solution to automate printing, exporting and post-processing from Adobe InDesign. Output Factory automates and simplifies workflows of printers, prepress bureaus, ad agencies and publishing houses worldwide by offering batch processing and powerful and versatile output options.

The new version adds a new option to the HTML output workflow: users now can output batches of InDesign files with a single set of HTML export settings, in addition to exporting each file in a batch using its current HTML settings. The new feature is especially helpful for the users who need to select a specific CSS file to be batched with every HTML document.

“Output Factory has been the single biggest time-saver I’ve encountered in ten years of print production,” says Mike Agate, Head of Production of Which?, Europe’s largest consumer rights organization. “With the reduction in head count and efficiency savings, it must have paid for itself 500 times over.”

Output Factory supports printing as well as exporting to PDF, PostScript, EPS, Flash, INX, IDML, EPUB, HTML, INDD and several image formats. It offers the following key features:

–Batch output of InDesign files
-Single page output
–Layer versioning
-Variable output file names
-Preflighting
-Update modified links
-Output to several formats at once

Pricing and Availability:
Output Factory can be purchased from Zevrix website for US$169.95 (Light version $119.95), as well as from authorized resellers and Adobe Exchange. Trial is also available for download. BatchOutput users can upgrade to Output Factory for $84.97. Output Factory is available for Mac OS X 10.5-10.8 on Intel-based Macs and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CS6. An InDesign CC compatible version will be available shortly.

About Zevrix Solutions

Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF workflows, graphic file diagnostics, file delivery and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals increase their profits through automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit http://www.zevrix.com.

Contact:
Leo Revzin
Owner
Zevrix Solutions
105 McCAUL St, Suite 301
Toronto Ontario M5T 2X4 Canada
858-206-0607
media@zevrix.com

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Zevrix Updates Output Factory for InDesign: Improves Queue Management

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Zevrix Solutions announces Output Factory 1.1.8, a feature update to its new solution to automate output from Adobe InDesign. Output Factory automates printing, exporting and post-processing from InDesign, and offers batch processing, single page export, variable file names, layer versioning, preflighting, processing history and more. The new version lets users add the entire folder contents to the file queue automatically with the option to add InDesign files from entire folder subtree.

Toronto (ON), Canada – May 5, 2012 – Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of Output Factory 1.1.8, a feature update to its professional solution to automate printing, exporting and post-processing from Adobe InDesign. Output Factory is the major upgrade of the company’s widely popular plug-in BatchOutput which automates and simplifies workflows of printers, prepress bureaus, design agencies and publishing houses worldwide.

The new version allows users to add all InDesign files from selected folders to the queue automatically without the need to select each file individually. Users have a choice to add files from the selected folder only, or from the entire folder subtree.

Output Factory is a powerful solution to automate InDesign’s output tasks, whether users need to send hundreds of documents or just a single one. Users only need to select the files to output and adjust the settings, and Output Factory will do the rest automatically. For example, the software can be left exporting hundreds of InDesign files overnight, and the completed job can be picked up next morning.

“When every second counts Output Factory is a life saver!” says Glen Saville of the design firm glensaville.com in the UK, “I had a 20 book job to do the other day and had to get PDFs out very quickly, and it was absolutely indispensable!”

Output Factory supports printing as well as exporting to PDF, PostScript, EPS, Flash, INX, IDML, EPUB and several image formats. It offers the following key features:

–Batch processing of InDesign files
-Output as single pages
-Save groups of output settings
-Output to several formats at once
-Update modified links automatically
-Assign powerful variable output file names.
-Layer versioning: output layer combinations as single files.
–Preflight InDesign documents and skip the ones with errors
-Preflight final PDFs
-History: keep track of jobs, output files and errors.

Pricing and Availability:
Output Factory can be purchased from Zevrix website for US$169.95, as well as from authorized resellers. Trial is also available for download. Licensed BatchOutput users can upgrade to Output Factory for $84.97. Output Factory is available for Mac OS X 10.5-10.7 on Intel-based Macs and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CS5.5. InDesign CS6 compatible version will be released in mid-May as a free update.

About Zevrix Solutions

Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF workflows, graphic file diagnostics, file delivery and Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals increase their profits through automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit http://www.zevrix.com.

Contact:
Leo Revzin
Owner
Zevrix Solutions
105 McCAUL St, Suite 301
Toronto Ontario M5T 2X4 Canada
858-206-0607
media@zevrix.com

Solutions for Adobe InDesign & the Graphics Industry