Enfocus PitStop product manager Andrew Bailes-Collins has published an article entitled Why you should have bleed in a PDF file.
Coincidentally, the recently announced version 2021 of Enfocus PitStop will include several enhancements related to bleed… 😉
Enfocus has also published a comprehensive blog post entitled How to fix PDF bleed problems with PitStop Pro.
On the occasion of the release of the Switch PDF Review Module version 2.0, Enfocus Product Manager Andrew Bailes-Collins has published an article entitled Print Proofing in the Digital Age.
In addition to a historical review (starting in the 1940s), it describes the advantages of digital soft proofing methods. However, he also addresses potential problems with PDF print proofing such as overprinting and transparency:
In May 2020, Global Graphics released the first edition of Full Speed Ahead: How to make variable data PDF files that won’t slow your digital press. Since some things have changed in the meantime, the second edition of Full Speed Ahead: How to make variable data PDF files that won’t slow your digital press has now been published:
Read more…Global Graphics publishes
second edition of «Full Speed Ahead»
Adobe released planned updates for Acrobat DC, Acrobat 2020 and Acrobat 2017. There are three separate installers:
The updates can also be installed using the Acrobat menu Help > Check for Updates….
According to Adobe there are the following new features:
Read more…Acrobat Update February 2021
with small improvements
When Affinity Publisher was introduced in the summer of 2019, I had noticed a disastrous PDF/X-4 compatibility and advised extreme caution before placing PDF pages in this layout application.
Now Affinity Publisher 1.9 with the new PDF passthrough feature has been released. That’s why I have carried out the same test with the six pages of the Ghent PDF Output Suite 5.0 again with the new version.
Read more…Import and export of PDF/X-4 with
Affinity Publisher 1.9 is now flawless