FILE FORMATS & STANDARDS -- Practices Make Perfect

Picking up where the PDF/X standard development effort and DDAP leave off, the Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG) is attempting to establish "best practices" for the gamut of print applications. It's leveraging and expanding the work done in the advertising arena by using PDF/X-1a:2001 PLUS as a foundation.

The group's work to date has centered on nine print applications, including newspaper ads; magazine ads; web offset printing, coldset (CMYK only or CMYK/spot color); web offset printing, heatset (CMYK only or CMYK/spot); and sheetfed offset (CMYK only, CMYK/spot, CMYK/spot with low-res images).