7. The product of claim 1 , wherein the product further comprises means for detecting edits which were not made by the product.
1. A computer program product, tangibly stored on a computer-readable medium, for editing a consolidated document in one or more editing sessions of an edit chain in which one or more users edit and save successive versions of the consolidated document, the consolidated document comprising at least one component file converted from a native application format into and stored in a non-native application format different from the native application format, the non-native application format comprising a format accepted by an output processing system, the product comprising: means for storing a marker within the consolidated document, the marker indicating that the document was edited using an ensured workflow system; means for storing identifying information within the consolidated document sufficient to identify the at least one component file that was converted into the consolidated document, the identifying information comprising one or more of: file name, file type, relative path, absolute path, creation date, modification date, and checksum data; means for storing preflight information within the consolidated document, the preflight information identifying a preflight profile and parameters thereof to be used for preflighting the document; means for preflighting the edited document in accordance with the preflight profile; and means for storing an edit log within the consolidated document, the edit log comprising edit information corresponding to a history of edits made to the document in each editing session of the edit chain, the edit information comprising: a listing of one or more edits made during the session, user information relating to the user who conducted the edit, comment data optionally entered by the user relating to the session, and one or more preflight results, if preflighting has been performed.