http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/index.php/archive/is-jdf-dead-or-alive/ Cheap Printer Ink Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:13:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/index.php/archive/is-jdf-dead-or-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-3875 Michael "PDF boy" Jahn Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:41:46 +0000 http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/?p=266#comment-3875 JDF is not dead, nor will it “die” anymore than the file format for Microsoft word will die - it will evolve and grow. JDF is not really thriving or becoming as widely adopted as lets say, PDF because there is not a large of an ecosystem for JDF. Vendors depend on it and are thankful it exists, as it becomes a common language for process control communication, but for JDF to become as popular as PDF and as required as PDF - we need tools. PDF became useful for prepress exchange when Peter Camps invented Enfocus PitStop - a set of tools that could help use modify PDFs into what we required. What we need is the same for workflows. I think there is a very strong possibility that JDF will thrive as Peter and his team do that with Enfocus Switch - that is, build a workflow editor that is simple to use and easy to implement. Perhaps JDF will then become our industries widely used and wildly popular ‘portable workflow format’ PWF ? JDF is not dead, nor will it “die” anymore than the file format for Microsoft word will die – it will evolve and grow. JDF is not really thriving or becoming as widely adopted as lets say, PDF because there is not a large of an ecosystem for JDF. Vendors depend on it and are thankful it exists, as it becomes a common language for process control communication, but for JDF to become as popular as PDF and as required as PDF – we need tools. PDF became useful for prepress exchange when Peter Camps invented Enfocus PitStop – a set of tools that could help use modify PDFs into what we required. What we need is the same for workflows. I think there is a very strong possibility that JDF will thrive as Peter and his team do that with Enfocus Switch – that is, build a workflow editor that is simple to use and easy to implement. Perhaps JDF will then become our industries widely used and wildly popular ‘portable workflow format’ PWF ?

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