New PDF/X Workflow Specifications v4 Released by the Ghent Workgroup

GWG’s specifications have become the international benchmark for PDF quality assurance. The free specifications are utilized by designers, prepress and printers all over the world.

“This is more than a minor update. It is a collection of feedback from the industry and associations over the last 3 years that was incorporated in the GWG v4 specs,” says Peter Kleinheider, Documentation Officer for the GWG and Print Publishing Technologies Manager for callas Software. “The main interest was the reduction of unnecessary restrictions like the use of double byte fonts or to ignore elements completely outside the trimbox. On the other hand, the check for image resolution or line-width was adopted to reflect today’s printing capabilities.”