Improving a PDF workflow with EnFocus PitStop Professional 6.5
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[ IT-Enquirer: Merlin 1.3] PitStop Professional offers a very large number of pre-defined profiles to preflight against. These profiles often originate from people in the industry itself, so that preflight profiles exist for PDF/X --as in Acrobat 7 natively-- but also for newspaper printing with a specific dot gain, for example. The big difference between Acrobat and any EnFocus product, however, is that the latter’s preflighting results in a PDF being certified to comply with industry standards for printing PDF documents.
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[Xmlpitstop.com] XML Pitstop : Discussion Post on XMLPitsotp.com: Well, that is an interesting question. I am sure that many folks have dealt with this themselves since PDF is a clean and very popular output format. I will list some items I came across from doing some of my research. If anybody else has had any personal experience output asp.net pages to PDF, please share with us. My only personal experience with outputting to PDF format is in using ActiveReports, which does a really sweet job of handling the paging for you and creates a nice pageable browser interface that clients really love. I highly recommend it. You may also want to look into other reporting tools like SQL Reporting Services and Crystal. Reporting tools handle this kind of functionality very nicely. Other than reporting tools, there are a number of 3rd party components that seem fit for the task, although I think that the trick in all of it is to include the header. Here are some that I researched:
[Xmlpitstop.com] XML Pitstop : Largest Source of XML Examples on the Web: We have deeply reworked our XSL FO stylesheet for XMLSpec 2.0. In its current version, it provides a reasonably nice coverage of five W3C papers: XML Spec, XML Namespaces, XSLT, XPath, and - finally - XSL FO Draft (the last one). At Renderex you can find the stylesheet with more comments, plus XSL FO versions of each of the above documents, and PDFs generated by our renderer.
[Xmlpitstop.com] XML Pitstop : Largest Source of XML Examples on the Web: This is not so much a tutorial as a working example of how XML and XSL can be used to create a XSL:FO file which in turn can be used to create a PDF. In this case it's an invoice that is being generated because invoicing is one of those things that needs to be as simple as possible and preferably as inexpensive as possible.
[Xmlpitstop.com] XML Pitstop : Largest Source of XML Examples on the Web: FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects and the world's first output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and then renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported are PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT, MIF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF The latest version of Fop is 0.20.4 and it supports the XSL-FO Version 1.0 W3C Recommendation.
[Software-robotics.com] View topic - How to repair acrobat pdf files, PMS spot colors ...: Acrobat must use color management to convert the colors from the monitor's color space to the color space of the output device in order to give you an accurate color preview. An acrobat pdf document usually contains calibrated (color-managed) and uncalibrated colors. Adobe acrobat will use the embedded color management information first, then the color management settings in the Preferences dialog box for uncalibrated (device-dependent) colors. If you want Acrobat to use an OutputIntent profile included in the PDF file for uncalibrated colors instead of the profiles specified in the Preferences dialog box then select OutputIntent Overrides Working Spaces.
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Posted at May 25, 2005 01:54 PM