Subject: Re: OPI Server ready
From: Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. (bucky@interaccess.com)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 15:16:30 EST
> From: Carsten Neumann <deltor@snafu.de>
> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:24:16 +0100
>
[...]
> Open Prepress Interface!
>
> You have to dig a little harder to find it.
> Also http://opi3.ebios.de gives no hint.
>
> I found these docs:
> http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/5660.OPI_2.0.pdf
> http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/OPI_13.pdf
Here's a quote from the second PDF:
"The Open Prepress Interface (OPI) is a collection of PostScript-language
comment conventions that allows a page-layout program to use low or medium
resolution TIFF images for layout and proofing, and have a prepress system
or OPI server automatically substitute a high resolution TIFF or other image
when the final film plates are generated. Both desktop prepress software and
high-end prepress systems can use OPI comments to minimize network traffic
and image storage requirements."
-B...
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