PowerSwitch

PowerSwitch is the most fully featured version of the Switch product family from Enfocus. Using its comprehensive scripting and metadata tools you can build an advanced production workflow that integrates seamlessly with Flowmation along with other third-party technologies like Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite and many imposition and pre-flighting tools. So you can...

• Upload an InDesign or Quark document in Flowmation and have a PDF created
• Split a multi-page PDF into separate pages
• Convert from CMYK to RGB and vice versa
• Pre-flight PDFs
• Handle document errors
• Recompile documents
• Automatically impose

...and many, many more possibilities. If you have a workflow or production idea or problem it's very likely that the combination of Flowmation and PowerSwitch will provide the answer.



Easily Accessible Production Workflows


The types of workflow that PowerSwitch is particularly suited to are in agencies and publishers of all types and sizes. PowerSwitch has very easily accessible configuration capabilites that are simple drag and drop. It's intuitive enough that you can pick PowerSwitch up and get running very quickly.



Advanced Scripting


You can take PowerSwitch even further through its scripting capabilities. Again these are easy to access and learn and PowerSwitch supports JavaScript (on both platforms), AppleScript (on Mac OS X) and Visual Basic Scripting (on Windows).



Intelligent processing enabled by metadata tools


Workflows can often be made more "intelligent" by taking advantage of the metadata that increasingly is stored with documents. PowerSwitch provides tools to read incoming metadata in various formats including XML, Adobe XMP and JDF. The contents of metadata fields can be used in flows to make routing decisions or to set processing parameters for automated tasks.

Embedded metadata such as EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata is directly available. Variables provide read-access to the embedded metadata and scripting can read but also update embedded metadata.



Integration with Flowmation's own Workflows


Flowmation's workflow's can invoke processes in PowerSwitch. That means that an asset that is uploaded into the Flowmation web client can then be processed automatically by Flowmation using one of the embedded Flowmation worklows. And it can work the other way. Once an asset has been processed in PowerSwitch it can be presented on the web in Flowmation making the whole experience a truly integrated one.