Introducing PDF To CIP3's Format

What do PDF and PJTF mean for CIP3's Print Production Format—and how is the Silicon Valley giant helping the consortium deliver on its promise to provide a fully digital link between prepress, press and postpress functionality?

To answer that, John Felleman, director of engineering at Adobe and the Adobe representative on the CIP3 council, points to the power of Adobe's PJTF—a thorough production job ticket format based on PDF—and PJTF's potential for empowering the CIP3 PPF with the flexibility and functionality of PDF-based workflows.