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News Release from: EnFocus Software NV | Subject: JDF and Job Ticket
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 March 2004
JDF Support Now For All Enfocus Software
Enfocus Software has announced plans for comprehensive job ticket and JDF support across its entire product line.
Enfocus Software has announced plans for comprehensive job ticket and JDF support across its entire product line The company intends to show a technology preview of how job ticket support will be incorporated into all of its products at Drupa 2004
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 29 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Enfocus said that the next major issue for graphic arts PDF workflows will be job ticketing.
The company believes it has developed a system that will ensure that job ticket support will be integrated into the print queue used by Instant PDF.
That print queue will contain the job ticket definition used by a document receiver, just as it now contains settings like job options and preflight settings.
The print queue can then be published on certified PDF.net.
When a document author subscribes to a print queue on certified PDF.net, the job ticket definition will be automatically downloaded.
During PDF creation the user will be prompted to fill out the job ticket, according to the guidelines in the job ticket definition.
The data entered will be stored inside the PDF file.
Enfocus said its certified PDF technology ensures at any time of the life cycle of the PDF that the included job ticket data will be compliant with the job ticket definition demanded by the document receiver.
A file will only have a checkmark if both the content and the job ticket data comply with their specification.
Because job ticket support is embraced by the certified PDF technology, all edits of the job ticket stored in the PDF file will be logged in the certified PDF edit log.
The job ticket information is stored in the PDF as XML.
Different Enfocus products will allow the extraction of the job ticket information in different formats, including standard JDF, for easy integration with back-end MIS systems.
Enfocus said it has always focused on PDF quality management in graphic arts workflows.
With certified PDF at the core of its entire product line Enfocus believes it is the only company to offer true reliable inter-company file exchange from start to finish in that area.
Enfocus' products are used by document creators as well as by document receivers and its technology is integrated in many OEM partner products.
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