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At 5:54 PM -0400 6/25/03, Todd Kueny wrote:
Its telling you didn't comment on the investment customers have made in PDF workflows (equipment, software, etc.) for commercial printing applications.
What's there to say....
People have made investments in software, hardware, etc. It may work with the standards of today, but may not work with the standards of tomorrow. If things don't work with those of tomorrow, they will need to upgrade - regardless of cost. That's the economics (for better or worse) of our industry.
Trying to create standards that work with existing tools is a quick way to extinction as it will only make the situation worse and not drive the industry forward in the ways it needs to be.
I've been doing this stuff for almost 20 years in this industry - from communication protocols (modem command sets, transfer protocols, etc.), to compression & archiving standards (Zip, StuffIt, MacBinary, AppleSingle, etc.), to web standards (HTML, PGML, SVG, etc.) and now working with graphic standards such as PDF.
Adoption of standards is driven by cost
Adoption of standards is driven by need. If you don't need it, you won't bother with it. If you need something, you'll pay for it. Supply and demand - economics 101.
If PDF/A is successful, it will simply drive print production to AFP or PostScript because the printing will still have to get done and the functions provided by KDK and XRX will have to be accommodated.
Seems to me that adoption of things like JDF, in conjunction with PDF/A would make much more sense. They are (or will be) both international standards that have been formalized by the appropriate committees and would be better to use than things based on "ad hoc solutions".
In fact, I can't even find anything online about KDK and XRX - so if you have any specific links about them, I'd LOVE to follow up...
Leonard
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