SneakPeek at Mac App Store analyse

I can finally view native Illustrator and InDesign files on my iPhone and iPad. I often get files sent to me and need to view them on my device. In addition, I can show artwork and layouts to just about anyone by viewing native files that are in my Dropbox. Since you can view the metadata, its almost like having Adobe Bridge on your device. Uses previews that InDesign saves so you may want to modify your preferences in InDesign.

This is a great utility. I use SneakPeek Pro on my Mac all the time. Its invaluable!

Needs work to come up to the level of utility and usefulness of the OS version which works well on MacBooks, iMacs and Pros. iOS version offers an online help file that doesnt exist. Preference drop down menu appears occasionally. Portrait and Landscape orientations work only after loading a document. Stuck in Portrait mode upon startup with no documents in archive or recent bins. One bright spot is its interface with DropBox which works well. Not worth $9.99

I bought this specifically to view EPS files, the Standard adobe file type. However only in the app does it tell you it only works on AI illustrator files. I feel lied to and ripped off. Not worth 10 because it doesnt work, otherwise I would have bought copies for 2 dozen employees.

I use this app all the time to view illustrator files on the fly that my design team sends to me. I wish their was an option to send a copy of the file as a jpg or PDF to my clients. No brainer for design pros.

To test this app, I viewed a ver. 15 Adobe Illustrator file with SneakPeek and compared it to a PDF viewed with another application. The color accuracy of the preview displayed by SneakPeek was horrible and useless; nothing like the actual artwork. Equally disappointing, is that the swatches feature displays inaccurate colors as well. Ironically, the swatches colors dont necessarily look like they do in the artwork! I imagined that only CMYK colors were not rendering accurately but discovered that RGB colors suffered equally. Its important that colors be rendered with some degree of accuracy; otherwise, a design cant be fairly scrutinized. Unfortunately, until smartphones and tablets implement color management and can utilize the embedded ICC profiles in files, color will be unpredictable for the most part. The PDF--viewed inside my iPads DropBox app--rendered colors about as accurately as one can expect under the circumstances but much better than the Illustrator file in SneakPeek. My advice: Continue using PDFs (converted to RGB color space), with color keys, to collaborate.

Well I can view .ai files. None of my .indd files worked. Yes they were packaged. Thats all. It was a pretty big file though. But thats why I use indesign. Books. Large books, with appropriate file size. Ah well. Itll prolly work well for those who use ID for posters, brochures, yeah small stuff! Oh yeah. Colors are real bad. Super off. And Im not comparing digital to print.