Wandsworth-based The Chameleon Press has come up with a novel and simple method to get around the problems of getting documents created in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint into print.


Chameleon's customers include charities, institutes and associations who supply their work in standard office packages.


"Errors are caused by customers using applications not designed for print," said director Ray Tindle. "Many companies cant crack it, but our guys have the skills."


"It was a problem because people were giving us Word files to colour separate and PDFs they wanted to edit," said origination manager Gary Mason.


It worked closely with Service Offset Supplies and Farrukh to come up with a way of driving its Screen Katana via Farrukhs Imposition Publisher software, which can accept and separate PDFs created by Microsoft software. The firm found that an easy way to correct any PDFs was to open them in Illustrator rather than a dedicated PDF utility.


Story by Barney Cox