Category: Print, PDF, PostScript, Harlequin and Global Graphics

1. New guides for best practice in creating print files for variable data printing

   Posted on 12:00pm Monday 12th Sep 2022

   I'm very proud to say that the PDF Association has just published two new guides on making better PDF files for variable data printing: one for Designers (co-edited with Pat McGrew) and one for software developers. 

   For more detail see here.

2. The route to PDF/X and where we are now: a personal history

   Posted on 12:00pm Thursday 21st Apr 2022

   I recently wrote up some recollections of nearly thirty years of history as part of the ongoing celebrations of two decades since the first ISO PDF/X standard was published at the PDF Association, here.

   

   But I'm now getting a bit worried that my first two blog posts are looking backwards instead of forwards. I'm sure it's just coincidence!