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Best practice in creating PDF files for Variable Data Printing

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  • Clear Do's and Don'ts
  • Actionable recommendations
  • For software developers, composition tool operators and press vendors
  • Clear Do's and Don'ts
  • Actionable recommendations
  • For software developers, composition tool operators and press vendors

Contents include:

  • What is variable data print?
  • The file formats used for delivering variable data jobs
  • Why optimization of variable data print jobs matters
  • How to make efficient PDF files
  • Technologies for printing variable data
  • Security marking
  • Relevant ISO Standards and when to use them

About the guide

If you’re a software developer working on composition or performance-enhancing tools for variable data print workflows you’ll probably already know that the efficiency of the PDF files that your code produces is a key part of its value to your customers.

This guide will give you much of the information you need to ensure that those PDF files can be rendered and printed as quickly as possible without compromising their visual appearance.

If you work in print production it will help you understand what might be happening when PDF files process slowly, and to talk to the composition tool and/or press vendors about possible options for improvement.

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