Graphic Inspector

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This con­test has end­ed. On 2008-03-09 we gave
Graphic Inspector from Zevrix Solutions
To Melissa O. of South Windsor, CT USA

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The QuarkXPress XTension We Gave Away This Time

Graphic Inspector (Mac Only)
QuarkXPress XTension from Zevrix Solutions

Graphic Inspector is a pre­flight solu­tion for images and vec­tor graph­ic files. The pro­gram is designed to help users of any trade, whether it’s print, web, pre­press, pub­lish­ing or dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy. With Graphic Inspector, you can quick­ly get cru­cial infor­ma­tion about entire fold­ers of files thus elim­i­nat­ing the need to open and check each file manually.
Graphic Inspector will dis­play info about file’s kind, col­or mode, res­o­lu­tion, col­or pro­file, spot col­ors, fonts, EXIF data and oth­er attributes.

The high­ly cus­tomiz­able Checkup Presets will let you quick­ly spot files with unwant­ed attrib­ut­es sav­ing hours of man­u­al check­ing and help­ing elim­i­nate cost­ly mis­takes. For exam­ple, you can make Graphic Inspector warn you about all files whose col­or mode is RGB, for­mat – JPEG, res­o­lu­tion is below 200 dpi, ICC pro­file does­n’t con­tain “USWebCoated” etc.

Graphic Inspector features

- Detailed file info
Graphic Inspector pro­vides the fol­low­ing info about files:

- File kind
(includes TIFF with LZW, JPEG and ZIP com­pres­sion, Photoshop EPS with JPEG com­pres­sion, Photoshop DCS) ‑File size ‑Color mode of bitmap files and native Illustrator (.ai) files ‑Resolution of bitmap images ‑Embedded col­or pro­file name ‑Fonts in vec­tor EPS and native Illustrator files (includes embed­ded fonts) ‑Spot col­ors in vec­tor EPS, native Illustrator, Photoshop Duotone and Photoshop DCS (Multichannel) files ‑File type ‑File cre­ator ‑File preview

- EXIF data
Digital cam­eras save JPEG files with EXIF (Exchangeable Image File) data.
Camera set­tings and scene infor­ma­tion are record­ed by the cam­era into the image file. Graphic Inspector dis­plays the EXIF data in a draw­er which can con­ve­nient­ly be hid­den if you don’t require this info (see the top right screenshot). 

- Checkup presets
When Graphic Inspector scans files, it can warn you about files that pos­sess (or don¹t pos­sess) cer­tain attrib­ut­es. You spec­i­fy the warn­ing con­di­tions in the Checkup Presets win­dow. The files that meet the con­di­tions will be flagged with a warn­ing sign. You can spec­i­fy con­di­tions for the fol­low­ing file attrib­ut­es: Kind, Color Mode, Color Profile, Type, Creator, Size, Resolution, EPS fonts and Spot Colors. You can cre­ate dif­fer­ent pre­sets for var­i­ous pur­pos­es, for exam­ple – print, web or PDF publishing.

- Export data
Export all scanned files info as tab-delimited text.

- Rescan
Rescan cur­rent­ly dis­played files to reflect changes in mod­i­fied files or to apply a dif­fer­ent check­up preset.

- Various scan­ning options
You can ini­ti­ate the scan­ning in sev­er­al ways:
‑Drag and drop files/folders on the Graphic Inspector icon in the Finder or Dock, ‑Drag and drop files/folders on Graphic Inspector¹s file table, ‑Through the Open menu, ‑Select a fold­er in the Graphic Inspector Finder Windows table and click the Å’Scan¹ but­ton (the Finder Window table shows the fold­ers cur­rent­ly open in the Finder), ‑Select a fold­er in the sys­tem tree table and click the Å’Scan¹ button.

Check the “Scan sub­fold­ers” but­ton to make Graphic Inspector scan all sub­fold­ers of every fold­er it scans.