ArtAffirm

ArtAffirm

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Lucid Dream Software, Inc. has announced ArtAffirm, a new online PDF editor, preflight, and layout tool. "Our research shows printing companies are spending thousands of dollars every month simply touching client files," says CEO David Lewis, "ArtAffirm can very substantially reduce these costs!" Embedded in the browser, ArtAffirm is a Rich Internet Application developed using HTML5 and Javascript to run in all popular browsers on the desktop and as a Web App for the iPad. Mr. Lewis adds, "We have one of the best web development teams in this industry. Developed using such technologies as Ruby on Rails, Cappuccino, C++, and AMQP; we have invested more than 10 man years into this project."

ArtAffirm has simple user friendly - built in - pdf preflighting to help users learn how to create a PDF that is print ready from all common formats including PDF, EPS, and image formats. ArtAffirm has online design tools with editing options, such as resizing, rotating, positioning, and layering. Print products ranging from single sided Business Cards to complex multi-page Photo Books, sizes from stamps to posters to full press sheets can all be assembled exactly to specs using ArtAffirm.

ArtAffirm is available for OEM license as a web framework for prepress systems, to integrate with web2print and print store front solutions and is also available pre-integrated with Lucid's own TribalSketch online print store front.

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