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10 things you should know about
fonts in PDF (but probably don’t)

8. September 20208. September 2020 by Stephan Jaeggi

The Ghent Workgroup (GWG) offers a free webinar on PDF fonts on 23.9.20 at 4 pm.

As reliable as PDF files are, there are still things that can wrong with them from time to time. One of the leading causes of such problems usually is the subject of fonts. Watch this webinar to understand fonts better: because it’s always smart to know your enemy, we’ll dissect some fonts for you and talk about character codes, glyphs, encodings, Multiple Master fonts, city fonts and much more.

Presented by:

Christian Blaise, agileStreams (Marketing Officer GWG)
David van Driessche, Four Pees/callas software (Executive Director GWG)

10 things you do with PDF, but shouldn’t!

3. August 20206. July 2020 by Stephan Jaeggi

The Ghent Workgroup (GWG) has organized a webinar entitled 10 things you do with PDF, but shouldn’t.

David van Driessche (Four Pees, Callas) und Christian Blaise (Bleu Process, agileStreams) have discussed the following topics:

Acrobat Update May 2020
fixes Preflight problems

3. June 202012. May 2020 by Stephan Jaeggi

Adobe released planned updates for Acrobat DC, Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat 2015. As usual there are three separate installers:

Acrobat 20.009.20063 for subscribers of the Document Cloud (Continuous Track)
Acrobat 17.011.30171 for users with a perpetual license of Acrobat 2017 (Classic Track)
Acrobat 15.006.30523 for users with a perpetual license of Acrobat 2015 (Classic Track)

The updates can also be installed using the Acrobat menu Help > Check for Updates….

For Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat 2015 there are only a few bug fixes. However, for Acrobat DC there are a number of new features and improvements:

Harlequin RIP gains
Ghent PDF Output Suite 5 compliancy

3. August 20205. May 2020 by Stephan Jaeggi

Global Graphics has recently rejoined the Ghent Workgroup (GWG).

Global Graphics has submit its Harlequin RIP for certification of compliancy with the Ghent PDF Output Suite 5 and passed this exam without problems. Instructions for the successful output of Ghent PDF Output Suite 5 were also published.

Exchange color space eciCMYK v2
with improved gray axis

3. August 202029. April 2020 by Stephan Jaeggi

The European Color Initiative (ECI) has revised its CMYK exchange color space. The new version eciCMYK v2 (FOGRA59) offers an improved gray axis and thus expands the application possibilities of the CMYK exchange color space compared to the previous version. The new profile can be downloaded free of charge from the (german) ECI homepage.