How PDF changed prepress production dramatically in the last 25 years
Dietrich von Seggern received his degree as a printing engineer, and in 1991 started his professional career as head of desktop prepress production in a reproduction house. He became involved in research projects for digital transmission of print files, and moved to the German Newspaper Marketing Organisation (ZMG). There Dietrich was … Read more
25 years ago the first version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) was published. The deception among the users in print production was great because PDF 1.0 only supported RGB colors. No CMYK nor spot colors were possible. But in the last 15 years PDF became the most important format for the exchange of prepress data.
The 25th birthday of the pdf-format is a good opportunity for PDF expert Stephan Jaeggi, publisher of PDF-AKTUELL, to look back on how PDF has changed prepress production over these years.
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