Prinergy Workflow Activity Guide

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Overview

Why you should complete this activity

Layered PDF Versioning (LPV) merges version content with base content to output multiple variations of a publication—for example, different languages.
This activity is important because it illustrates how to:

  • Use Layered PDF Versioning with non-layered input files—Scenario 1
  • Use Layered PDF Versioning color extraction override—Scenario 2
  • Use Layered PDF Versioning with a layered input file—Scenario 3

Recommended reading

  • Layered PDF Versioning for Prinergy User Guide
  • Layered PDF Versioning Self-Study Guide
  • Prinergy Workflow Workshop User Guide

What you'll need

For this activity you need to locate:

  • Prinergy Activity Practice Files / Act_31_LPV

What you need to know

Use Layered PDF Versioning with non-layered input files

You have been supplied with a series of CMYK non-layered input files. Based on these input files, you need to create a multilingual brochure that uses a common base and four separate versioned layers.

About Layered PDF Versioning
Layered PDF Versioning (LPV) is a versioning system that is flexible in its input file requirements and efficient in its ability to output multiple versions without manual workarounds. LPV is a system that extracts content from refined pages by colorant, and merges them as necessary to output multiple versions (or editions).

LPV Benefits

  • Support for several different input file models and a similar workflow for all supported input file models
  • Simplified and reduced operator steps, including:
    • The ability to output plates for all versions from one process
    • A simplified plate output process that eliminates the need for physical or digital double-burns
    • A simplified output process that eliminates possible errors caused by turning on and off separations for output
    • The ability to output proofs for all versions from one process as well as the ability to output proofs for individual versions
    • No need to import imposition plans more than once
  • Proofs that match the plates
  • The ability to output proofs in which all or selected versions can be overlaid: this allows you to merge separations across version files.
  • Viewing of multiple versions in a layered PDF 1.5 file in Adobe Acrobat 6 or later
  • Support for automation; different levels of automation are supported.

Process templates used:

  • Refine process template: Refine > Refine > 1st Ref-Normz
  • Imposition proof process template: Imposition Output > Virtual Proof > Virtual Proof.Imposed.600


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