StephanJaeggi PDFX-ready Online Tools DRAFT2 · A PDF Association Presentation · © 2017 by PDF Association · and 2017-05-15 Stephan Jaeggi, PrePress-Consulting

A PDF Association Presentation · © 2017 by PDF Association · www.pdfa.org and www.pdfx-ready.ch

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PDF Days Europe 2017

PDFX-ready Online Tools

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Stephan Jaeggi Principal of PrePress-Consulting Project leader PDFX-ready Online Tools

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•  About Stephan Jaeggi and PDFX-ready

•  Use of Preflight in daily production

•  Goals for PDFX-ready Online Tools

•  Architecture

•  Workflows on server

•  Color Preflight

•  Challenges

•  Online Survey

•  Conclusion

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Agenda


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About Stephan Jaeggi

•  Degree in Printing and Packaging Engineering FH/ESIG-COMEM

•  Manager of typesetting system, Graphische Betriebe Coop, Basel

•  Manager Technical IT at Swiss Printers Association, Zurich

•  Owner PrePress-Consulting in Binningen/Basel since 1992

•  Co-author of whitepaper «PDF for Prepress» (1998)

•  Technical Expert of ISO TC130/TF2/WG2 since 1998 •  Definition of ISO standards 15930-1 ... 15930-8 (PDF/X)

•  Co-author of ISO standard 15930-3 (PDF/X-3:2002)

•  Certification officer of PDFX-ready Switzerland since 2005

•  Technical officer of Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG) 2006 – 2014

•  PDF expert (part time) at Novartis Pharma Strategic Packaging Group/Artwork Operations 2010 – 2015: Introduction of PDF/X-4

•  Project leader PDFX-ready Online Tools since 2016

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•  Swiss non-profit association to promote and facilitate the use of PDF/X for the exchange of prepress data.

•  Members •  PDF/X creators: ad agencies, graphic designers, marketing

departements, prepress service providers, …

•  PDF/X receivers: prepress service providers, publishers, commercial printers, digital printers, …

•  PDF/X stake holders: print buyers, vendors, consultants, training companies, trade organisations, trade magazines, …

•  Activities •  Settings and instructions (recipes) for good PDF/X creation •  Preflight profiles (based on GWG specifications)

•  Certifications: Creator, Output, Expert •  Education: guideline, newsletter and events

(founded 2005 in Switzerland)

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Stephan Jaeggi, PrePress-Consulting [email protected] www.pdf-aktuell.ch Functionality

PDF/X, PDF/X-Plus, GWG, PDFX-ready

PDF/X Standards (ISO)

PDF/X-Plus Sheed-fed

(GWG, PDFX-ready)

PDF/X-Plus Web offset

(GWG, PDFX-ready)

PDF/X-Plus Newspaper

(GWG, PDFX-ready)

PDF Specifications (Adobe/ISO)

PDF/E

PDF/A

Customer, Publication, Job specific criterias (Number of pages, page size, bleed, spot colors, fonts, etc.)

Rel

iab

ility

PDF/UA


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•  Result of GWG 2017 survey...

•  Publication on May 22th

Use of Preflight in daily production

A lot of users don‘t know how/have the ability to preflight a PDF before sending it to the printer.


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•  Ease access to preflight for more user groups (especially non graphic arts professionals)

•  Make users sensible for wrong color spaces in PDF/X

•  Increase awareness of PDFX-ready (internationally)

•  Provide added value to the PDFX-ready members

•  Get new members

•  Promote the use of PDF/X among users outside of graphic arts

•  Combine off-the-shelf tools to create the service

•  No programming

Goals for PDFX-ready Online Tools


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•  Client: Connector (created with Enfocus Connect Send) •  Fill-in a (small) job ticket •  Transmit PDF file(s) to server

•  Server: Managed by Enfocus Switch •  Callas pdfToolbox CLI •  ColorLogic DocBees Profile Tagger CLI

•  Transfer: TeamBeam PRO

PDFX-ready Online Tools – Architecture

Advantages: No web interface required; less time critical

Connector Switch

ProfileTagger

pdfToolbox TeamBeam

TeamBeam


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Workflows on server

•  Jobentry

•  PDF Preflight

•  Color Preflight

•  ISO<–>PSO Converter

•  Problem handling


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Todays situation in PDF/X workflow

Creator Print shop

Images with different color spaces in the same PDF!

ISO Coated

SWOP

Newspaper

Newspaper Newspaper


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•  Often CMYK images do not correspond to the Output Intent (unknown color spaces)

PDF with mixed color spaces


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•  Based on ColorLogic DocBees ProfileTagger

•  Checks if images correspond to the embedded Output Intent (profile accuracy)

•  Checks each image against 25 ICC profiles of typical standard printing conditions and recommends the best match

Color Preflight


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•  „Orphan“ file was duplicated every 8 min. => filled hard disk in a few days

•  Flattended PDF (13 pages) > 29‘000 images => Timeout after 60 min. in Color Preflight

•  TeamBeam blocks the entire system if file name contains diacritical characters (äéç) => script to convert/filter diacritical chars.

•  A few users with connection problems => Created Connector without Proxi

•  Connector stopped working after expiration of license for Enfocus Connect

•  ...

Challenges


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Online Survey


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Online Survey


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•  Cloud based solutions possible with (combination of) off-the-shelf software.

•  Local installation of Connector app required.

•  Results by e-mail (delay of a couple of min.)

•  PDF Preflight available for everybody.

•  Color Preflight makes sensible for color issues in PDF workflows.

•  Awareness of PDFX-ready Online Tools is not (yet) big enough.

Conclusion


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