Computer hardware and software for high-end workflow automation, integration and distribution in the process of creating printed materials in the graphic prepress industry, namely, computer software for estimating and ordering print jobs; computer software for creating, organizing, converting and sharing content, creating preflights PDFs, capture of colonized TIFFs, multitones, spot gradients, and spot colors, creation of Portable Job Ticket Format (PJTF) files, import of preflight profiles, PDFs, production profiles and job tickets from the production shop; computer software for management of printed material content, namely, automated normalizing, processing and remote viewing of content files, integrated preflight and imposition, local and remote image reference checking, page selection, determining (spot) color behavior and preparing and forwarding pages for rendering and further processing; computer software for rendering files, digital film management, color profiling, imposing pages, PDF processing, creating digital film that can be previewed and checked for accuracy; computer software for prepress output management, viewing and adjusting digital films, managing output to digital proofers, imagesetters, platesetters, computer-to-file devices, computer-to-plate devices, and providing for creation of multiple versions of plates