Hamilton--2000 - The Controversies Continue

While there are still bugs—Acrobat 4.0 was not exactly the cleanest release of all time—there is no doubt that PDF is sufficiently robust to satisfy many commercial printing applications. This is where the prepress community must take a stand, as going the full PDF route will also entail upgrading the RIP for many shops, since it requires a PostScript 3-compatible RIP in order to make the work flow. And, there are a lot of shops out there still working with PostScript Level 2 systems or earlier, so this may still be a work in progress.