A JDF Success Story — Waldman

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Moving all of this into JDF in one stroke would be a rather daunting and probably unsuccessful task. So the approach was to first focus on the main company. Prepress is a great place to start and most major suppliers of prepress workflow systems are JDF-enabled. However, Novak threw me a bit of a curve. He spoke very enthusiastically, not so much about a specific prepress company, but about an individual with whom I should have been more familiar. Rohan Holt pioneered the computerization of job planning and is the original inventor of SuperImpose. It was renamed UpFront after being acquired by ScenicSoft in 1999. Later, ScenicSoft became part of Creo, which was acquired by Kodak. So UpFront is now a Kodak product. Got all that!