Certified PDF A Smart Digital Master

摘要

This paper introduces the Certified PDF technology designed to make quality control of PDF documents throughout a PDF workflow more manageable and reliable. Files can be created correctly from the start (rather than possibly fixed later), kept consistently correct throughout the workflow, unnecessary preflighting is avoided, liability issues around corrections are solved, and a full document history is available at any time. These benefits are accomplished through the use of Certified PDF documents; smart PDF documents which remember their own preflight status and editing history. Certified PDF has currently been accepted as a compulsory national standard for digital document interchange in a large part of the publishing industry in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. In those countries it replaces traditional exchange of native application files, PostScript and plain PDF files and is set next to TIFF/IT files in terms of press-readiness and reliability.