Adobe PDF Print Engine 2
Product overview
Adobe® PDF Print Engine 2 is a software development kit (SDK) employed by Adobe print partners to build industry-leading printing systems. It is designed for the needs of both offset and digital print production. With new features designed for personalized publishing, Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 delivers unprecedented freedom of collaboration for designers, printers, and marketers. Creative professionals can design personalization directly into their content, producing PDF master files that flow through the entire print process without unnecessary intervention. Print solutions powered by Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 allow PDF files to be rendered natively, using the same technology as Adobe Acrobat® and Creative Suite® software, helping to ensure that complex designs and effects, even variable print elements with transparency, are efficiently and reliably reproduced.
Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 provides JDF control for late binding flexibility. Device-dependent processes such as color management, trapping, and imposition can be driven by JDF instructions inside the Adobe PDF Print Engine and thus deferred until jobs are ready to be rendered. This architecture, which decouples content (PDF) from process (JDF), allows print production professionals to quickly accommodate last-minute changes and easily configure PDF jobs for various types of devices and presses. Designers are freed to focus their energies on the creative presentation of content, producing a single digital master that can be repurposed for other publishing platforms such as web, e-mail, and mobile.
Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 enables Adobe solution partners to provide full-fidelity desktop previewing for designers and printers alike. The advanced PDF rendering engine used for final output is the same as the one used to view jobs at every point in the workflow.
Greater workflow control
Optimized for personalized publishing
Dramatically improve overall throughput and output quality, for greater control and reliability in data-driven one-to-one marketing.
Common PDF technology across the workflow
Improve the end-to-end consistency and flexibility of print output.
Pervasive JDF control
Capture job ticket and process control information separately from the PDF file, enabling end-to-end, device-independent processing of PDF files.
Native PDF and live transparency rendering with no flattening
Streamline the production of complex PDF artwork.
Increased workflow productivity
What you see is what you print
View true-to-print onscreen PDF previews thanks to common PDF rendering technology, reducing the need for late-stage and ad hoc corrections.
Faster rendering of sophisticated design elements
Reduce processing times and improve system throughput.
Scalable architecture
Take advantage of optimized processing in multicore processors and processor environments.
