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1 PDF Days Europe 2017 PDFX-ready Online Tools Stephan Jaeggi Principal of Project leader PDFX-ready Online Tools A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and 1

2 Agenda 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 A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and 2

3 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 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 (PDF/X) Co-author of ISO standard (PDF/X-3:2002) Certification officer of PDFX-ready Switzerland since 2005 Technical officer of Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG) PDF expert (part time) at Novartis Pharma Strategic Packaging Group/Artwork Operations : Introduction of PDF/X-4 Project leader PDFX-ready Online Tools since 2016 A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and 3

4 (founded 2005 in Switzerland) 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 A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

5 PDF/X, PDF/X-Plus, GWG, PDFX-ready Customer, Publication, Job specific criterias (Number of pages, page size, bleed, spot colors, fonts, etc.) Reliability PDF/X-Plus Newspaper (GWG, PDFX-ready) PDF/X-Plus Sheed-fed (GWG, PDFX-ready) PDF/X-Plus Web offset (GWG, PDFX-ready) PDF/A PDF/X Standards (ISO) PDF/UA PDF/E PDF Specifications (Adobe/ISO) Functionality A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

6 Use of Preflight in daily production Result of GWG 2017 survey... Publication on May 22th A lot of users don t know how/have the ability to preflight a PDF before sending it to the printer. A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

7 Goals for PDFX-ready Online Tools 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 A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

8 PDFX-ready Online Tools Architecture 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 pdftoolbox TeamBeam Connector Switch ProfileTagger TeamBeam Advantages: No web interface required; less time critical A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

9 Workflows on server Jobentry PDF Preflight Color Preflight ISO< >PSO Converter Problem handling A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

10 Todays situation in PDF/X workflow Creator Print shop ISO Coated SWOP Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper Images with different color spaces in the same PDF! A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

11 PDF with mixed color spaces Often CMYK images do not correspond to the Output Intent (unknown color spaces) A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

12 Color Preflight 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 A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

13 Challenges Orphan file was duplicated every 8 min. => filled hard disk in a few days Flattended PDF (13 pages) > 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... A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

14 Online Survey A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

15 Online Survey A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

16 Conclusion Cloud based solutions possible with (combination of) off-the-shelf software. Local installation of Connector app required. Results by (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. A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and

17 PDF Days Europe 2017 Thank you! Any questions? Get in touch:, Web site: (in german and english Blog: (in german and english) PDFX-ready: (partially in english) Online Tools: (in german and english) A PDF Association Presentation 2017 by PDF Association and 17