DIGITAL digest

According to the study, the top five benefits of working with PDF files are fewer cross-platform issues, smaller files, faster system throughput, ability to soft proof PDF files and easier preflight.

However, the results also showed that several problems traditionally associated with creating digital files still persist. The most common problems reported with PDF files supplied by print clients included fonts not embedded, image resolutions too low, no bleed set in file and wrong color space specified (especially RGB).