EFI and GWG team up for Fiery PDF certification service
29 June 2022
EFI and the Ghent Working Group are offering a certification service for users of Fiery DFEs to prove they meet PDF Output Suite 5.0 Conformance
Markzware releases PDFMarkz
20 May 2021
Markzware has released PDFMarkz, a stand-alone macOS application which processes and converts PDF files.
GWG creates commercial print destination
30 March 2020
The Ghent Workgroup has introduced a Commercial Print landing page on its website, bringing together artwork creation and supply format information for creatives, publishers and…
Wild Format: Working with PDF and PDF/X technology
3 May 2018
(L-R) Adobe’s founders, John Warnock and Chuck Geschke. Adobe had huge success with PostScript in the early 1980s, and developed a complementary file format, PDF, in…
Ricoh brings Interact to Europe
25 July 2017
Following four annual global Interact user community events held in Boulder, USA, Ricoh is hosting Interact Europe at its Customer Experience Centre in Telford, UK,…
Ultimate TechnoGraphics joins GWG
30 June 2017
Montreal-based software developer Ultimate TechnoGraphics is now a vendor member of the Ghent Workgroup (GWG). Julie Watson, CEO of Ultimate TechnoGraphics, said: ‘We have joined…
Ricoh achieves Ghent Workgroup PDF preflight certification
7 June 2017
The Ghent Workgroup has awarded Ricoh its PDF preflight certification for reliable PDF processing between creative professionals and print service providers. ‘This certification also…
The dynamic duo turn two
12 May 2017
Class in session: developers test JDF 2.0 software at the CIP4 InterOp in March This year will see both PDF and JDF reach version…
Global Graphics to host PDF 2.0 webinar this week
24 April 2017
Martin Bailey, CTO of Global Graphics will speak at the webinar on Wednesday On 26 April Global Graphics will hold a webinar examining the…
Agfa Apogee gains Ghent Workgroup PDF preflight certification
6 April 2017
Addressing the highest level of preflight capability for reliable PDF processing, Agfa’s Apogee Prepress workflow has successfully passed the latest GWG PDF preflight certification. The…
GWG announces second PDF survey
23 March 2017
Following up a similar survey conducted in 2008, The Ghent Workgroup is aiming to gather data find out what has changed since and gain insight…
PDF 2.0 workshops announced
10 February 2017
(L-R) Duff Johnson, executive director of the PDF Association and Martin Bailey, UK expert on PDF committees Two PDF Association interoperability workshops hosted by…
Right intentions
13 December 2016
Including details about a print job in its PDF will improve the ordering and production process. Barney Cox looks at the developments. One of the…
Project starts to enable job description within PDF files
31 October 2016
Martin Bailey is chairing taskforce charged with developing PDFs to carry job description. Plans have begun to make it possible to use PDFs to…
Saving money with PDF/X
10 February 2015
Without a formal standard for digital printing, writes Laurel Brunner, the PDF/X standard – ISO 15930 – could be a useful way for printers to…