As of Feb 1 2020, the PROOFER module will no longer be available in lifethreads studio. This decision was made with the best interests of all our customers in mind.  Removing the PROOFER will allow us to continue to provide the best customer service and user experience possible.  We thank you in advance for your understanding.

To be clear, we have not removed the PDF proof generation.  PDF proofs are awesome and will remain the cornerstone of how you proof projects through lifethreads studio.  See how to generate PDF proofs here.

 We understand that change can suck and isn’t always convenient.  If you loved PROOFER and used it regularly – thank you, and we do apologize for the change.  However, there are a few reasons we have made this decision, if you care to know them, they’re below.  We hope you take advantage of the PDF proofs if you do not already use an external proofing system.  They’re quick, simple and they work quite well. If you do have a proofing system you already love, rock on!

We love having you all along for the ride and we remain committed to providing the best user experience possible to you all. Thank you for being a part of what makes lifethreads such a fantastic business to be a part of.

And now for those who care, the why’s:

  • Proofer was admittedly (and unfortunately) inherently glitchy for many users and it was becoming inefficient in many ways for us to continue to host and support it
  • Proofer was vastly under-utilized by our customer base.
    • partly due to the first point
    • partly due to the fact that many of our clients already use SmartAlbums by Pixellu or Fundy Album Designer by Fundy – both of these apps are brilliant designers with fantastic proofers. We’ve partnered with both companies and all our sizes and settings are already in both apps, just choose lifethreads albums as your vendor/lab (we know, it’s cool right?)
  • Our time and money is better focused on producing beautiful hand-crafted products than developing software
  • PDF proofs serve their purpose well, they’re easy to generate, simple to share and well…they just work well