diagnostics trial software / shareware for mac

Printools provides pre-press professionals with a sophisticated suite of printing tools and timesaving options. The Printools interface includes rename at print, batch printing, print to file, preflight checking, page slug customization, print style handling, and state-of-the-art live previews. Whats more, you will be able to combine several of these tools during the same print session to streamline complex printing tasks.
Printools sports a completely redesigned user interface, dedicating a separate panel to each tool. You can even combine rename at print, print to file, preflighting and batch printing in the same print session to streamline complex printing tasks.
Main features:
- Rename at Print
You can now rename the document during the output stage, without altering the actual document or file name. Print renaming is useful for identifying the document during the output stage, regarless of the actual file name. It is also helpfull in keeping track of revisions or when printing individual pages for imposition. Printools lets you specify up to 3 components in the new name. For each, choose from: project name, layout name, Project_Layout, the page range, a 3-digit serial number that increases automatically after printing, or any custom text.
- Batch Printing
The batch printing tool allows you to print multiple files with the same print settings. Simply select the files you wish to print, arrange them in any order you like, and hit the Print button. Printools will open each of the files and immediately send them to the print queue applying the output settings youve previously specified. You can even combine batch printing with print to file to generate multiple PostScript files at once.
- Preflighting
The preflighting engine quickly and thoroughly checks for potential problems that could lead to time and material waste. Customize the preflight checks by activating any of the following diagnostics: missing fonts, suppress printout, text overflows, broken picture links, RGB Images, EPS with JPEG compression, unknown image formats, hairlines, and poor image resolution. You can even configure the preflight tool to automatically run before printing.
- Save as PostScript
This tool allows you to save the printout to a designated folder as a PostScript file. When combined with batch printing, you can generate dozens or even hundreds of these files in one single step. Specify up to 3 components for naming the output files. For each, choose from: project name, layout name, Project_Layout, the page range, a 3-digit serial number, or any custom text.
- Custom Page Slugs
This tool lets you customize the page slug printed at the top of the page when printing with registration marks. For example, you may want to add the label "Revision 1" to indicate the stage during revision cycles. Printools allows you to suppress any of the standard QuarkXPress tags and/or add up to seven additional ones: user name, machine name, line screen, emulsion, bleed, scaling and any custom text.
- Live Previews
The live preview shows you in real time an exact representation of how the output will look as you change the print settings. Single pages or spreads, crop marks, manual or automatic tiling, page rotation, bleeds, and negative printing are just some of the print settings shown in the live preview. You can even manually tile a page by dragging the mouse over the preview area. And a toolbar next to the live preview contains common shortcut buttons, such as change page rotation, turn manual tiling on/off, print marks, and page flipping.

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Version restrictions:
- 30 days trial period.

Enhancements
QuarkXPress 8:
- Completely redesigned interface - Printools for QuarkXPress now has its own window, separated from the Print dialog.
- New in Batch Printing: file icon; drag-n-drop to list; Remove All button; Unsort button.
- New in Preflighting: LAB, Duotone, and Indexed color models; TIFF compression; auto update modified links; preference to choose what to do when problems are found.
- New in Custom Slugs: date formats; time formats; print info; renamed name; save to tile name; destination folder; ability to append or remove QuarkXPress slug; ability to choose separator.
- New in Rename at Print: file sequence and user name (as file name component); leading zeros; serial number step, ability to add file extension.
- New in Save to File: save as PDF; file sequence and user name (as file name component); leading zeros; serial number step, ability to add file extension; drag and drop to folder path.
- New Preferences panel.
- Ability to reset serial number after printing
- Ability to choose action to take when duplicate files are found.
- Simulation Mode: simulates the printing process without actually printing.
- New Print Log window: shows in real time detailed info of the printing process. Includes de Preflight Results window and ability to open skipped files in QuarkXPress.
- Ability to save preflight results and print log results.
- QuarkXPress 8-native.
InDesign CS4:
- New Custom Slugs: allows you to print a custom slug at the bottom of the page.
- New in Batch Printing: file icon; drag-n-drop to list; Remove All button; Unsort button.
- New in Rename at Print: user name (as file name component); leading zeros; serial number step.
- New in Save to File: user name (as file name component); leading zeros; serial number step; drag and drop to folder path.
- New Preferences panel.
- Ability to reset serial number after printing
- Ability to choose action to take when duplicate files are found.
- Number of copies (print to printer only).
- Redesigned interface.
- Optimized for InDesign CS4.

Inspector makes good use of tool tips and extensive use of portal filtering to allow you to locate problems quickly and easily. Hover over a filter field and youll get some hints on what you can type into the filter to find what you are looking for. Try it-- you might like it.
Hover over red dots to display diagnostic tooltips. Need some guidance on how to use this incredible tool? Help is just a few steps away with with online tutorials for Inspector at Lynda.com.
Inspector is able to link directly to referenced objects,all you have to do is click on the yellow arrow. Inspector also keeps track of where you have been-- click the browser-like buttons to go backwards or forwards.
Attention to detail... Youll find that throughout Inspector. Weve poured a lot of effort and attention into this product. Youll see things like nested script steps, script steps that have been disabled are grayed out, comments are in bold, and of course if a problem exists it shows up with a red dot. With such a rich user interface, information is easy to find and understand- and it becomes an intuitive experience.
If you like to print reports and check items off one at a time, Inspector will make tackling problems a breeze. Problem reports are subsummarized for clarity and legibility.
On the other hand, if you prefer to work on the screen, youll love Inspectors interactive problem reports. They let you add notes to problems, keep track of things and collaborate better with your team.
Include the Inspector seal of approval with all the products you develop. Inspect throughout development to prevent any problems that might creep.
Enhancements:
- The big news about Inspector 1.7 is that it comes fully unlocked, thus allowing you to modify any aspect of it. Customize the look of your reports for your clients, or extend the functionality of the tool and add new features or reports.
- With this release we are also very excited to announce a joint marketing effort and strategic alliance with myFMbutler from Belgium. To kick this off all those who purchase Inspector will receive a free version of Clip Manager (Mac only).

FontAgent Pro Server delivers professional font management, diagnostics and repair to entire departments and enterprises.
FontAgent Pro Server furnishes administrators with consistency and control over font use by providing designers with access to only those fonts that have been designated for specific groups and users.

Main features:
- Find, Optimize and Organize Your Fonts.
- Create Libraries and Nested Sets.
- Activate Fonts Any Way You Want.
- Preview and Select Exactly the Fonts You Need.
- Print and Export Fonts Easily.
- Share Fonts Without a Server.

Version restrictions:
- 30-day trial version for 10 users.

Enhancements
- Features replicated font servers, enabling administrators to establish redundant font servers across their enterprise with automatic replication of changes from a master server. It also includes a zero-configuration implementation of directory services, role-based assignment of permissions, uploading of font sets, encryption of all user and password information with AES 128-bit encryption, multi-threading and smart caching for performance, and other improvements.

DeskTape Pro allows you to use the Macintosh Finder or Speed Doubler to copy files directly to a mounted tape volume. No other tape backup utility allows such easy access to gigabytes of data, graphic images, or digital audio or video files. There are no applications to open, no complicated copy operations to set up.

Simply insert a tape cartridge, initialize it, then copy individual files, folders, or entire volumes to the mounted tape. Its that simple.
DeskTape Pro supports a wide range of tape drives including DAT, 8MM Exabyte, AIT, and DLT.

DeskTape supports Mac OS 8.5 and Extended HFS volumes and includes native PowerPC code. Other features include powerful diagnostics tools, a benchmark utility, and a file-by-file recovery tool that allows you to recover data from tape volumes.

MPressionist.X Pro is a premastering and diagnostic tool for MPEG2 HD picture quality for HD-DVD and DVD authors and professional video compressionists, and is currently available only for Macintosh.
Offering a feature set unavailable in any other product on any platform, MPressionist.X makes it possible for desktop video authors to achieve the same level of control over the compression process that the big Hollywood studios use in their million-dollar compression studios. By providing key feedback on the results of compression, the author can quickly identify potential problem areas in the compressed bitstream without having to watch the entire compressed file. Using quantitative analysis, determine whether the encoded bitrate is too high or too low, and work in an iterative process to fine-tune your compression. No more "feeling around in the dark" for correct settings. Demystifies the relationships between settings in the encoder and the resultant MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video file. Provides "at a glance" diagnostics for checking 2:3 pulldown flags, MPEG timecode, GOP structure and more.
A limited version of MPressionist.X is built into MegaPEG.X and can be found in the freely available Demo version of MegaPEG.X. A full version of MPressionst Pro HD is built into MegaPEG HDTV, Digigamis top of the line MPEG2 encoder for mac.
Version restrictions:
- Demo versions allow you to make or analyze Standard Definition movies up to approx 15min running time.
Enhancements:
- 3.1: Improvements to H.264 Frame Comparator
- 3.0: HD Version is available
- 3.0: Completely redesigned UI experience
- New Analysis tools for Comparing Source Movie with Compressed MPEG
- 3.0: Compare/contrast two different compressed MPEG files.
- 3.0: Quickly diagnose field-dominance problems.
- 3.0: Identify I-frames at scene changes and chapter points.
- 3.0: Multi-threaded: demultiplex and analyze in the background
- 3.0: Twice as fast as 2.0 version.

DTerm provides an efficient and easy-to-use debugging terminal for MacOS 9 and MacOS X programs, and other code. Features include:One version for both Mac OS 9 CFM programs as well as Mac OS X CFM and Mach-O programs. Displays results for each program in their own window. Time and date stamps every diagnostic message.

Merge the contents of multiple windows into a single window to view program interactions. DTerm library has no effect on running applications. Monitoring application can be created to send to end-users.