Adobe Print Engine 1.1 supports OS X
updated 08:45 am EDT, Mon October 16, 2006
Adobe Print Engine 1.1
Adobe today announced version 1.1 of Adobe PDF Print Engine software technology, a comprehensive design-to-print solution that leverages Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and Job Definition Format (JDF) to deliver control, consistency and efficiency throughout the entire print workflow. The new version leverages common PDF technology across the Adobe Creative Suite and Acrobat to allow creative and print professionals to efficiently create, collaborate on, and automate the output of Adobe PDF files. New features include support for Mac OS X, PDF 1.7, PDF layer-management and enhanced color management.
"The Adobe PDF Print Engine is a major evolutionary step for the media industry," said Bernd Zipper, technology and strategy consultant of ZIPCON Consulting Germany and author of Seybold Reports, USA. "The loose ends are now finally tied up so that manufacturers, as well as users of workflow systems, are given the opportunity to use the full scope of PDF. The option for the output side to more effectively use PDF layers in the future opens up totally new perspectives for users in the prepress industry."
The new version of the Adobe PDF Print Engine includes a number of added features including support for PDF 1.7 and Mac OS X. The software also offers improved proofing workflows that support standards-based blending of process with spot colors as well as proofing devices with extended color gamuts and RIP-centric PDF Layer management, to help improve the efficiency of processing layered PDF files.
The company said that major OEM printing partners will demonstrate the integration of Adobe PDF Print Engine into printing systems at Adobe's booth (booth No. 4229) and partner booths at Graph Expo, October 15-18 in Chicago. First introduced in April 2006, Adobe PDF Print Engine is already used by Agfa Graphics, Dainippon Screen, FUJIFILM Electronic Imaging, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Kodak Graphic Communications Group, and RIPit.
OEM implementations of Adobe PDF Print Engine version 1.1 are expected to be available beginning December 2006.
