Archive for August, 2008
ProofHQ Tutorial Movies
We wanted to provide an easy to access list of our tutorial movies:
New ProofHQ Release
We just released a new version of ProofHQ. Here’s a summary of the main features.
New Dashboard
We have introduced a brand new Dashboard that will give you a much clearer view of all of the activities on your proofs.
There is a new Overview section, which helps filter quickly to the proofs that you have to either review or manage.
We have created a new Stats section, so you can keep up to date with the proof and storage that you are using.
We have also added filters to the Recent Activity section so that you can filter to view New Comments, New Proofs and Decisions.
Additional options for proofs
We have added some additional controls to the Create Proof and New Version:
Proof Owner. When you create a proof you can now make someone else in your organization the owner of the proof. For example, a designer may create a proof, but make an account manager the owner.
Activate passcode. You can quickly add a passcode to your proof for additional security.
Block download of the original file. You can now prevent reviewers downloading the original file.
Block the embed code. You can now block the embed code being used so that reviewers are not able to embed a miniproof.
Block the public URL. You can now block the public URL being used so reviewers can only access the proof via the personal URL that they receive in the New Proof emails.
If you are interested in joining the Beta for the API, please contact us at support@proofhq.com.
Amex and PayPal
We have had calls from lots of people asking why they can’t pay using Amex.
The simple answer is that we use PayPal to manage our credit card processing. Unfortunately PayPal in the UK doesn’t have a deal with Amex and won’t process Amex cards. We have spent about 2 months working with PayPal to try and resolve this problem including days in the developer forums, but the end result is “can’t do it”.
The upshot is that we are switching to another credit card processor and will be able to take Amex in about 2 weeks time.
New ProofHQ release
We released a great new version this weekend. The main focus of this release is improving the usability of ProofHQ, especially the proof page.
Our whole mantra is “quick, simple, easy online proofing”, so we have been listening to your feedback and working hard to improve how you and your reviewers work with ProofHQ.
We made a couple of obvious changes, and lots of small ones. We hope that these make online proofing with ProofHQ even easier.
More obvious mark-up tools
The first big change is that we have moved the mark-up tool into the header of the proof, so that they are the first thing reviewers see when they open a proof.
Reviewers can now open the proof with just one click and start marking-up and commenting on the proof with just one more click.
New tutorial movie on the proof page
We have added a new tutorial movie to the proof page.
A link to the movie appears whenever a reviewer opens a proof. Regular users can hide the movie so that they don’t need to see it each time, although it is always available in the Help menu.
(The movie is a bit basic right now, but will be updated in the next few days)
Multi-page proofs - page navigation
You will notice a new button at the bottom of the proof that opens up thumbnail images for each page. Just click on a thumbnail and you will go to the new page.
Easier navigation from the proof page to the rest of ProofHQ
You can navigate around ProofHQ more easily. We have created a new menu in the proof page call “Go To”. From that menu you can go to the detail page for the proof, the dashboard, the proofs list and the workspaces list.
