king james, inside pdf ecosystem

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Inside the

PDF Ecosystem

James C. KingPDF Architect/Principal Scientist

Advanced Technology LaboratoryAdobe Systems Incorporated


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Outline

Ecosystems More than a

Two PDF Ecosystems

Print/Publishing

Ofce/Enterprise

XPS Ecosystems

Generating PDF

Generating XPS

PDF Today and Tomorrow

XPS Today and Tomorrow

Mars


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Why Ecosystem

A system ormed by the interrelationships o organisms with theirenvironment and each other.

More than a market or marketplace

More than a workow

More than a language

More than a product or two

A complex system o interrelated and interdependent parts


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Ecosystems

Vendors

Suppliers

Customers

Customers customers Customers customers customers

Community, training, support

Competition Leadership

Standards

Economic interdependence

Synergistic Workows

Products

Supplies

Tools

Maintenance Service

Equipment

Choices Architecture

Sotware


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Two PDF Ecosystems

Print/Publishing

Ofce/Enterprise


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PDF Print/Publishing Fabric

GraphicsEditor

DocumentEditor

Layout

Editor

TextEditor

WebsiteEditor

Image

Editor

Imagesetter

Digital Press

DTP Press

Internet

Trapping

Proong

Sot Proong

Preight


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PDF Print/Publishing EcosystemBuilt on the PDF Fabric

14 Years o Learning and Ecosystem Building

1993 PDF 1.0 Designed or ofce documents

Missing unction:

haltone screens, transer unctions, stroke adjustment, overprint & knockout, blackgeneration, undercolor removal, separation color spaces, level-2 patterns and OPI

comments

1996 PDF 1.2 Added missing unction

First version usable or publishing on press

~2001 PDF/X Subset just or publishing exchange

An ISO Standard based on ull PDF

1993present Worldwide tool and product development

Ghostscript


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PDF Ofce/Enterprise Fabric

DrawingEditor

DocumentEditor

SpreadsheetEditor

WebsiteEditor

Photo

Editor

E-MailAttach

DocumentDatabase

OfcePrinter

Internet


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PDF Ofce/Enterprise EcosystemBuilt on the PDF Fabric

14 Years o Learning and Ecosystem Building

1993 PDF 1.0 Designed or ofce documents

Captured print output rom all applications

1997 - PDF 1.2 Fill-in orms introduced

2001 PDF 1.4 Added Features or Microsot Ofce

2005 PDF/A Subset or archiving

An ISO Standard based on ull PDF 1.4 2003 PDF 1.6 3D introduced or engineering drawings

1993present Worldwide tool and product development

Ghostscript


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XPS Ecosystems

XML Paper Specication


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XPS Print/Publishing Fabric

Does not exist (yet? ever?)Does not exist (yet? ever?)

Function missing in XPS (Same list as or PDF 1.0)

haltone screens, transer unctions, stroke adjustment, overprint & knockout, blackgeneration, undercolor removal, separation color spaces, level-2 patterns and OPI

comments

Publishing applications must generate via API not aux print driver

XPS to PostScript and PostScript to XPS

Long live PostScript!

Big lack o tools or: preight, touchup, color management, imposition, crop marks,trapping, pre-separated workows

Architecture or subordination o imaging missing (e.g. EPS)

Needs support in the transparency model


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XPS Ofce/Enterprise Fabric

DrawingEditor

MS Word

Excel

SharePointDesigner?

Photo

Editor

E-MailAttach

DocumentDatabase

OfcePrinter

Internet

Viewer ubiquity an issue

(Mac, Unix)

Now mostly MicrosotProducts

Still very early


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Generating PDF


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Stages o Generating PDF Documents

Application(e.g. InDesign)

PrintFunction

SaveAsFunction

Print Driver(aux PDF printer)

PDF File

Standard Print Driver API

AcrobatPDF Writer

(1993-2001)

Capturing any print output

A powerul idea


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Acrobat PDF Writer


PrintFunction

SaveAsFunction


PDF File


Poor solution Faux print driver gets only what prints

No table o contents, hyperlinks, notes

Little structure Glyphs not Unicode

Lowest denominator Graphics (no EPS)


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Acrobat Distiller and Adobe PDF Printer


PrintFunction

SaveAsFunction

Print Driver(or PostScript printer)


Acrobat Distiller

PDF File PDF File


BetterPoor

Applications write richer PostScript

Handles EPS

Additional inormation using PDF Mark

Add table o content, buttons, hyperlinks

Adobe PDF Printer combined as driver

Still taking advantage o print interace

PDF Marks

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Application Built-in Support or Generating PDFUsing PDF Library

PDFLibrary

PDF LibraryAPI

PDF File

Best

Full PDF unctionavailable through

custom API


PrintFunctionSaveAsFunction Print Driver(or PostScript printer)


Acrobat Distiller

PDF File PDF File


BetterPoor

PDF Marks


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Generating XPS


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Two Methods to Generate XPS

XPSLibrary

XPS LibraryAPI

Best

Full XPS unctionavailable through

custom API


PrintFunctionSaveAsFunction

Print Driver(aux XPS printer)


Good

No table ocontents,

hyperlinks, etc.

Just what prints

No specialPostScript support

No Distiller or PDF

Mark

XPS File XPS File


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PDF

Today and Tomorrow

G l El t i D t R i t


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General Electronic Document Requirements(Extends beyond the needs o publishing and printing)

Navigation Bookmarks (TOC), hyperlinks, buttons and actions

Forms Fields, logic, validation, submission, data model map

Structure Logical structure, attributes, accessibility, layout, object

metadata

Annotations User markup or review and approval workows

Multimedia Embedded audio and video

Layers Content groups, visibility control, views

Authenticity Digital signatures, encryption, rights management

Packages Groups o documents and les 3D For engineering diagrams and other uses o 3D

Measurements Providing precision while looking at drawings


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PDF 1.7 (2007)

PDF 1.7

language & products to supportthose document eatures

Adobe supplied public specication or PDF 1.0 (1993)through PDF 1.7 (2007)

No licensing restrictions imposed by Adobe to implementPDF products

Great de acto standard or 14 years


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PDF/A Archiving Subset (ISO - 19005-1)

PDF 1.7

PDF/A Developed through AIIM with

cooperation rom Adobe

Submitted to ISO Technical Committee

TC-171

Published as ISO Specication in 2005


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PDF/X Prepress Subset (ISO - 19006-1)

PDF 1.7

PDF/A

PDF/X

Developed through CGATS with cooperation

rom Adobe Submitted to ISO Technical Committee TC-130

First published as ISO Specication in 2000


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Full PDF as an Open Standard

It is now time SAN JOSE, Cali. Jan. 29, 2007 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE)

today announced that it intends to release the ull Portable Document Format (PDF)

1.7 specication to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, or the

purpose o publication by the International Organization or Standardization (ISO).See

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200701/012907OpenPDFAIIM.html

ISO Technical Committee 171- document management applications

ISO TC 171 already manages ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A)

ISO TC 130 manages PDF/X (graphic arts)

AIIM manages the PDF/A and now the PDF/E eorts or TC 171


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Establishing the ISO PDF Umbrella

PDF 1.7 (ISO-32000)

PDF/Aarchive

ISO 19005-1(PDF 1.4)

PDF/Eengineering

AIIM Committee--> ISO

PDF/UAaccessibility

AIIM Committee--> ISO

PDF/Xgraphic arts

ISO 15930-1(PDF 1.4 & 1.6)


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Adobes Intention

Evolution o PDF specication as a public and open activity

Adobe wants to do this in the best possible way

Establish a baseline standard as quickly as possible (mid 2008?)

Adobe -- one o many stakeholders

ISO is widely recognized and respected

Experienced with PDF-based standards

Need a baseline standard to cover the millions o PDF les that already exist

Get the current PDF 1.7 into ISO ormat and approved without semantic change

Subsequent releases will be completely under ISO control

Adobe participating where and when appropriate


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XPS

Today and Tomorrow


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XPS

Introduced by Microsot in 2007

Initially a building block o the Windows Vista printing architecture

Allows the display API to be directed to a printer via drivers

Natural part o a WYSISYG operating system

Like Mac OS-X supports PDF or clipboard, screen and print spool

Viewers available or Windows XP (native on Vista)

Talk about Mac and Unix support


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XPS

XPS

An XML Paper Specication (XPS) Document is apage-by-page view o the document's content as

it would be printed. In other words, it turns on-

screen content into true electronic paper.

http://www.microsot.com/whdc/xps/xpsusers.mspx

The XPS Document ormat provides a sae and

secure way to store and share an electronic

document. The layout o the content is xed and

does not contain any arbitrary code, macros, orscripts.

http://www.microsot.com/whdc/xps/xpsitpro.mspx

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XPS Compares with PDF 1.0 or PDF/A

PDF 1.7(complete)

PDF/A

PDF/X

XPS

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XPS Technology

Uses Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) Pages are XAML subset (a la Vista screen API)

Close to the PostScript/PDF imaging model

Purposeully limited unctions to make it simple and disruptive

No scripting

No orms

No interaction

Just basic paper pages in electronic orm

What happens when people ask or more!


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Mars

An XML-Friendly PDF Serialization

M i PDF 1 7


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Mars is PDF 1.7

PDF 1.7(complete)

PDF/A

PDF/X

XPS

Mars

Semantics o Mars isidentical to PDF 1.7

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Future o Mars

Determined in large part by your response

Technology preview available rom Adobe Labs

Adobe is actively seeking input & eedback rom the user & developer communities

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mars/ or http://www.adobe.com/go/mars

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Summary

PDF has an ecosystem built up rom 14 years o openness XPS or print/publishing is very unrealistic (today or tomorrow)

XPS or ofce/enterprise might happen

Ubiquity is an issue Restriction to paper metaphor may be too limiting

The PDF ecosystem belongs to all o us: Adobe, competitors, customers, andcustomers customers. Why should we return to 1993 and start over

We should invest our resources in improving the system we have

Competition is good

Now is the time to tell Adobe what you need


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