Competitive approaches to prepress workflow

Going full circle with Illustrator

Both Artwork Systems and Esko have to handle input from Adobe Illustrator files. After performing their packaging related functions, they have to generate high level and certified PDFs for prepress output. Simon Eccles looks at the rival approaches of the two companies’ products.

February 06, 2007

Creative design for packaging is often done using Adobe Illustrator desktop software, yet the pre-press stage usually switches to specialist programs and the PDF file format to handle colour separations, CAD integration and final output to printing plates. It’s often useful for the designer to take back processed files for late corrections, or to ‘repurpose’ the design for special offers or related products with different text and colourways. The snag is that if you create PDF files in Illustrator and then modify them in another program then it becomes hard to re-edit the files later on in Illustrator.
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