Comments on: A Technical Guide To Creating And Sharing Digital Documents http://www.4xpdf.com/2008/10/a-technical-guide-to-creating-and-sharing-digital-documents/ PDF News, PDF Articles, PDF Tips and PDF Rants on ... PDF! Sat, 14 May 2011 22:40:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Michel Jahn http://www.4xpdf.com/2008/10/a-technical-guide-to-creating-and-sharing-digital-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-2034 Michel Jahn Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:50:16 +0000 http://digitaldocuments.debenu.com/?p=960#comment-2034 IoFlex specializes in scan-to-printready, and at present most of their customers are high-end print-on-demand book printers - but lets face it, converting that to eBook is not that simple. The requirements of that customers set for printing are particularly demanding in that the software is required to take a scanned book and to the extent possible return it to a state for printing that is indistinguishable from the original (InDesign, Quark version) of the work. Where quality of outcome is of utmost importance, customers use the IoFlex Bookmaker suite of Acrobat plug-ins, where an operator plies our tools to separate images from text into separate PDF layers, and then applies various transformations specific to each layer (and sometimes specific to each image). The newly available Blackbox Workstation offers a twist on the quality/labor dynamic by taking a pretty darn good run at automatically rendering each scanned page into a printready state, leaving only the occasional exceptional page to be reworked by the Bookmaker handtools. IoFlex specializes in scan-to-printready, and at present most of their customers are high-end print-on-demand book printers – but lets face it, converting that to eBook is not that simple. The requirements of that customers set for printing are particularly demanding in that the software is required to take a scanned book and to the extent possible return it to a state for printing that is indistinguishable from the original (InDesign, Quark version) of the work.

Where quality of outcome is of utmost importance, customers use the IoFlex Bookmaker suite of Acrobat plug-ins, where an operator plies our tools to separate images from text into separate PDF layers, and then applies various transformations specific to each layer (and sometimes specific to each image). The newly available Blackbox Workstation offers a twist on the quality/labor dynamic by taking a pretty darn good run at automatically rendering each scanned page into a printready state, leaving only the occasional exceptional page to be reworked by the Bookmaker handtools.

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