Focus on Digital Front Ends

"Heidelberg plans to move aggressively in the direction of PDF processing and Adobe Job Ticket support. In 1999, the market can expect to see Job Ticket support on Delta," reports Dennis Ryan, Heidelberg Prepress product marketing manager.

"There will be other workflow-related developments, including an increase in the number and variety of input and export formats supported," Ryan continues. "We anticipate a high-end PDF editing workstation solution from DaVinci based on the SGI graphic workstation, which is being extended to provide PostScript 3 and PDF 1.3 import and export support."