Digital Manuscripts: To ensure that PDF files are generated correctly, the printing and publishing industry needs a standard way to save and apply Distillers' predefined structure settings that can be published outside the page generator. The Printing Technical Standards Committee is developing a standard for digital manuscripts in PDF format called "PDF/X-1". It adds some extended features to the description of PDF 1.2, including trapping, color space, and PDF files. Content resource references, etc. PDF/X-1 is expected to be a self-contained file that carries all the necessary information when it is exported.
Preflight: The content of the page must be valid at both ends of the digital interaction. Pre-inspection is a matter of sorting out the ins and outs, that is, designing related designs to meet requirements and industry standards. The job of "distilling" Postscript into a PDF file is to remove the taint from the content of the page to standardize it. However, PDF is a very flexible file format, and some incorrect structures and human errors can also be fooled. Therefore, a visual screen proof PDF file can capture these error factors. Fortunately, PDF as an open system makes it very easy to automate PDF parsing and analysis.
Transfer: PDF has become the first format for a variety of business transactions and can be accessed through a web browser, FTP address, E-mail, or a managed web service.
Prepress: Media production must be able to complete page layout operations without having to distract from unrelated page elements. Many OPI solutions are capable of replacing high-resolution images in PDF files. OPI 2.0 comments will support the next version of the PDF standard. With some software tools, page elements from the page body alone can be inserted, and application software supporting dynamic database-driven PDF group layout is emerging.
Group Edition: The browsability of PDF pages makes it easy to proofread PDF digital layouts on the screen. Therefore, it is not surprising that more and more Postscript group packs absorb a certain degree of supportive characteristics of PDF. In pre-defined templates, all pages can be replaced.
Last-minute editing: Print production requires a stable page format that protects the content of the page from being affected by the processing. However, media production also requires editing and modification at the last minute. In theory, PDF meets these requirements. However, this is not the case in practice. The editing function of PDF files is very limited. For example, it is a big challenge to make changes to a text block to adapt to a word change.
RIP processing: The goal to be achieved in the workflow is that PDF can directly process and screen the PDF file RIP. This requires the use of a PJTF control statement listing combined with Adobe's Extreme RIP architecture. Singer's Brisque can handle PDFRIP, and Agfa's AI Pole workflow has added some PJTF features, but many PDF workflows redirect PDF to Postscript for final RIP processing. Generally, PDF The production efficiency of its own RIP processing is determined by the final output.
Trapping: PDF is not a solution for direct trapping, but PDF is a very useful input file format as a color, vector-based file format, and a technical solution to the data flow in RIP and the subsequent trapping of RIP.
Contract proofing: For digital contract drafting, both the local drafting and the remote drafting must be very similar to the final impressions. The new generation of affordable papermaking equipment enables the precise reproduction of the various workflow points in the media production cycle. The stable nature of PDF in the reproduction and transmission of high-resolution color data makes PDF a reliable standard format accepted by various color drafting devices. Like printing, RIP processing of vector type page content can be repeated “reprintedâ€, provided that the control and calibration are correct.
Printing and Binding: Traditional simulation processes require a combination of process optimizations in a single network environment. In 1999, the organization known as the "Integration, Printing, and Postpress International Cooperation" (CIP3) organization adopted PJTF as the official format for printing production data. This standard will enable a PDF data file to integrate the various steps in media production. Until binding.
Concluding remarks In the print production, the gestation period of PDF has ended and the benefits for all aspects of the printing and publishing industry are substantial. The gap in the current PDF workflow will always be eliminated. A lot of innovation and development will accelerate the market recognition, and the industrial restructuring around PDF will be faster and more fierce in the future!
Preflight: The content of the page must be valid at both ends of the digital interaction. Pre-inspection is a matter of sorting out the ins and outs, that is, designing related designs to meet requirements and industry standards. The job of "distilling" Postscript into a PDF file is to remove the taint from the content of the page to standardize it. However, PDF is a very flexible file format, and some incorrect structures and human errors can also be fooled. Therefore, a visual screen proof PDF file can capture these error factors. Fortunately, PDF as an open system makes it very easy to automate PDF parsing and analysis.
Transfer: PDF has become the first format for a variety of business transactions and can be accessed through a web browser, FTP address, E-mail, or a managed web service.
Prepress: Media production must be able to complete page layout operations without having to distract from unrelated page elements. Many OPI solutions are capable of replacing high-resolution images in PDF files. OPI 2.0 comments will support the next version of the PDF standard. With some software tools, page elements from the page body alone can be inserted, and application software supporting dynamic database-driven PDF group layout is emerging.
Group Edition: The browsability of PDF pages makes it easy to proofread PDF digital layouts on the screen. Therefore, it is not surprising that more and more Postscript group packs absorb a certain degree of supportive characteristics of PDF. In pre-defined templates, all pages can be replaced.
Last-minute editing: Print production requires a stable page format that protects the content of the page from being affected by the processing. However, media production also requires editing and modification at the last minute. In theory, PDF meets these requirements. However, this is not the case in practice. The editing function of PDF files is very limited. For example, it is a big challenge to make changes to a text block to adapt to a word change.
RIP processing: The goal to be achieved in the workflow is that PDF can directly process and screen the PDF file RIP. This requires the use of a PJTF control statement listing combined with Adobe's Extreme RIP architecture. Singer's Brisque can handle PDFRIP, and Agfa's AI Pole workflow has added some PJTF features, but many PDF workflows redirect PDF to Postscript for final RIP processing. Generally, PDF The production efficiency of its own RIP processing is determined by the final output.
Trapping: PDF is not a solution for direct trapping, but PDF is a very useful input file format as a color, vector-based file format, and a technical solution to the data flow in RIP and the subsequent trapping of RIP.
Contract proofing: For digital contract drafting, both the local drafting and the remote drafting must be very similar to the final impressions. The new generation of affordable papermaking equipment enables the precise reproduction of the various workflow points in the media production cycle. The stable nature of PDF in the reproduction and transmission of high-resolution color data makes PDF a reliable standard format accepted by various color drafting devices. Like printing, RIP processing of vector type page content can be repeated “reprintedâ€, provided that the control and calibration are correct.
Printing and Binding: Traditional simulation processes require a combination of process optimizations in a single network environment. In 1999, the organization known as the "Integration, Printing, and Postpress International Cooperation" (CIP3) organization adopted PJTF as the official format for printing production data. This standard will enable a PDF data file to integrate the various steps in media production. Until binding.
Concluding remarks In the print production, the gestation period of PDF has ended and the benefits for all aspects of the printing and publishing industry are substantial. The gap in the current PDF workflow will always be eliminated. A lot of innovation and development will accelerate the market recognition, and the industrial restructuring around PDF will be faster and more fierce in the future!