PDF 2.0 and PDF/X-6 – The New PDF Standards
The future speaks PDF 2.0: Only recently the ISO published a new revision of PDF 2.0, with which the new printing standard PDF/X-6 also takes shape.
PDF/X-4 and Other PDF/X Standards
PDF standards and their impact on printing.
PDF X/4 data – who calculates? InDesign or the RIP?
Recently we received a PDF file from a Swiss customer who asked us to proof it according to ISOCoatedV2. The format was PDFX-4, we could open the file, preflight it and also display it in Acrobat. However, when proofing in Fiery XF 5.2, the file was only output after a RIP time of over 3 hours. Adobe PDF X4 screen output in Acrobat Professional We have recorded the screen layout on a modern Macbook Pro with four processor cores and the latest Acrobat Pro version to illustrate the enormous demands …
PDF/X4 – The future of PDF/X?
The PDF/X4 standard, a new PDF specification for PDF export, has already been available for several years. But what are the advantages of PDF/X4? Users from the print sector have known the ISO PDF-X standards for many years. If the name PDF stands for “Portable Document Format”, i.e. the portable and thus transferable document, PDF “X” is a version specialized for “eXchange”, i.e. the exchange of PDF files. In concrete terms, this means that many of the functions that a PDF file can potentially display (form fields, calculations, 3D elements, …