Application Status Analysis Nowadays, the PDF workflow is not new for a certain range of black-and-white printing applications, and PDF workflows are used for commercial printing, such as business forms, books, and newspaper advertisements. At the same time, PDF integrated EDI transaction management, job ticketing, and database application technologies are further developments in the future of PDF printing in black and white printing.
Some of the simpler, more complex printing processes, and color requirements that are not very high in color, have been well established in the PDF workflow, such as business form printing. PDF is increasingly becoming the first internal format for on-demand color printing.
The PDF workflow has tremendous penetrability for color newspaper advertisements, partly due to the adoption of industry standards for color advertising programs and EDI transactions earlier. In Europe and the United States, PDF workflow is becoming a workflow for magazine and catalog printing, but the first condition is to provide a complete production program. Now we see that PDF-based workflows are moving toward more complex forms of digital printing applications that involve mass customization of page content or dynamic composition from databases.
The PDF workflow is gradually penetrating color printing applications with high commercial requirements such as offset printing, packaging printing, and special printing. With the introduction of integrated PDF production systems by some companies, the commercial PDF production workflow will be rapidly progressing.
However, PDF awareness applications today do not fully utilize the information architecture provided by PDF. Therefore, it is necessary to sew up gaps between channels and channels. In a few years, this situation will be dramatically improved. PDF applications will become tightly integrated, which integrates e-commerce, information management, and process management activities.
If we look at the different stages of production activities in the print distribution channel, we will see that PDF provides an information system that extends beyond the entire production cycle. From design propagation to page generation to media production.
E-commerce: The printing industry needs a very fluid and clear way to express transaction information. Whether the PDF file is transmitted via E-mail, Web, or managed distributed services, the related business functions must also be performed in the network. The generation, establishment, management, tracking, and closure of these transactional transactions takes place in a distributed production cycle. XML has emerged as a breakthrough standard and applied to electronic data transactions (EDIs). Some EDI-specific functions have been developed to meet the requirements of various fields in the printing market. They include SPACE for digital advertising; PROSE (Production Order Specifi/EDI) and BISAC (Book Industry Systems Advisory Committee) for magazine publishing. In these industries, the key to success is whether customers and businesses have the same attitude towards EDI usage.
Color management: Colors must be synchronized in the printing workflow through devices and displays, and color management will evolve into services that are implemented via the web. Within the network workflow, a color management system (CMS) enables color consistency for dissimilar or remote output devices. The current version of PDF itself does not support its own built-in ICC Profile, but PDF 1.3 and PDF/X will fill this feature gap.
The generation of page content involving several key issues before printing: In order to automate the generation of pages, there is a need for... pple claims to use PDF primitives instead of PICT as the basis for QP in OSX, which will eventually make the image The workflow goes to WYSIWYG (WYSIWYG). This new idea points out that page construction software is required to have a full range of tools for editing PDF files.
Adobe "K2" (now InDesign) may meet this requirement in the future. A small amount of software, such as PageMaker, can now support PDF files, but in many scenarios it is still necessary to use the EPS format.
Pre-printing of page content: PDF provides a common format for multi-point collaboration, which is as reliable as fax, it can be viewed by any company on any platform and can be output to any printer. To accommodate high-speed file transfers, images can be down-sampled or compressed in the network. Some commenting tools provided by some plug-in developers have more powerful setting functions. They can freely outline and highlight the elements of the page, and even record supplementary suggestions in audio form. Second, there are some issues that need to be noted in pre-drafting, such as the output font, fill type, and color space. (To be continued)