PDF Workflows

At present, the book manufacturer requests PostScript files, but is gearing up for a full PDF workflow, with new software and hardware additions on the company's checklist for this year.

"We find PostScript to be the most stable format out there, but we can see that PDF will be the major format of our future—and it would not surprise me if PDF eventually becomes the dominant files we work with each day," Talacka says. "Publishers like the PDF format because it is easily repurposed into other formats, and allows the layout to be preserved, with all text and graphics exactly where the designer originally placed them. Overall, PDF documents can be multi-purposed much easier."