- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (22 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 013020837X
- ISBN-13: 978-0130208378
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Must reading for every design, publishing, and print professional The only complete, real-world guide to PDF and digital workflow!
PDF and related digital technologies are transforming graphics arts workflow-and with every new job, it seems, come new surprises. Now there's a comprehensive guide to the realities of digital workflow with PDF, by the industry's leading expert and author-Frank Romano. In PDF Printing and Workflow, you'll walk through all you need to know to integrate PDF into digital processes that actually achieve their goals. From preflighting to color management, trapping to RIPping, it's all here-the best practices, pitfalls, workarounds, and compromises that would otherwise take you years to learn.
- Build reliable networks for digital workflow automation-and prevent bottlenecks
- Get expert advice on creating, viewing, and editing PDF files
- Learn advanced trapping approaches, including In-RIP Trapping
- Make the most of Acrobat Exchange, PDFWriter, and Acrobat Catalog
- Learn more about Crackerjack, Tailor, Checkup, PitStop, and other key PDF plug-ins
Discover how designer/printer relationships must evolve to support high-quality, profitable work in digital environments. Implement technology and workflows to support short runs, personalization, repurposing, soft proofing, and other critical new requirements. Get "under the hood" with PDF and PostScript to see why things don't always work as they're supposed to. Whether you're a creative, publishing, or print professional, PDF Printing and Workflow brings together all the theory and practice you need to succeed with digital workflow.
- The definitive guide to digital workflow with PDF!
- Real-world applications and insights
- Trapping, RIPping, color management, personalization, and more
- Up-to-the-minute coverage of PDF problems, workarounds, and plug-ins
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent resource for someone who has some basic experience with PDF files and/or digital prepress and who wants a more profound understanding of how PDF works, how to optimize its production, and what can potentially go wrong. It is *not* a book for computer beginners or people trying to learn the basics of digital printing; its apparent intended audience is publishing students or professionals familiar with the industry and its terminology. As a journal editor converting to PDF prepress, I found it helpful in explaining the steps I don't see after I ship digital files to our printing company, and very informative on the "innards" of Acrobat and PDF. The book would have benefited from rigorous copyediting to remove repetitions and to clarify the book's organization. All in all a solid reference for publishers/printers using Acrobat 3 and PDF 1.2, though some details may not apply to the just-released Acrobat 4 / PDF 1.3.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Romano gives a wide-ranging (if sometimes disjoint) overview of PDF's uses in prepress, with one of the most comprehensive summaries of existing Acrobat plug-ins available. Romano knows prepress, and he succeeds in giving valuable insights into the proper uses of PDF and Adobe's Acrobat products in a printing or prepress environment. Romano also knows PostScript and gives valuable insights into PS's relation to PDF. Weaknesses include cursory coverage of the Portable Job Ticket Format and zero coverage of PDF's internals (operators, data types, workings). Buy this book if you're into prepress, not if you're into web publishing.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Excellent summary of PDF prepress technology
13 July 1999
Format:Paperback
Romano gives a wide-ranging (if sometimes disjoint) overview of PDF's uses in prepress, with one of the most comprehensive summaries of existing Acrobat plug-ins available. Romano knows prepress, and he succeeds in giving valuable insights into the proper uses of PDF and Adobe's Acrobat products in a printing or prepress environment. Romano also knows PostScript and gives valuable insights into PS's relation to PDF. Weaknesses include cursory coverage of the Portable Job Ticket Format and zero coverage of PDF's internals (operators, data types, workings). Buy this book if you're into prepress, not if you're into web publishing.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Information-rich but rather haphazardly organized
10 April 1999
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent resource for someone who has some basic experience with PDF files and/or digital prepress and who wants a more profound understanding of how PDF works, how to optimize its production, and what can potentially go wrong. It is *not* a book for computer beginners or people trying to learn the basics of digital printing; its apparent intended audience is publishing students or professionals familiar with the industry and its terminology. As a journal editor converting to PDF prepress, I found it helpful in explaining the steps I don't see after I ship digital files to our printing company, and very informative on the "innards" of Acrobat and PDF. The book would have benefited from rigorous copyediting to remove repetitions and to clarify the book's organization. All in all a solid reference for publishers/printers using Acrobat 3 and PDF 1.2, though some details may not apply to the just-released Acrobat 4 / PDF 1.3.
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