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

The instructor or coach will provide you with the location of the practice files.
Note: If you are completing this activity on your own or coaching others in your shop, copy the Prinergy Activity Practice Files folder (available on the Kodak Partner Place internet portal at https://partnerplace.kodak.com/) directly to your workstation. For further information about these procedures, see Activity 1.

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