Constructive page description. Opening up the prepress world

The Constructive Page Description (CPD) is an overall approach allowing different kind of data to be exchanged between a variety of systems and manipulated in arbitrary system environments. Fully changeable pages, that keep information for modifications as long as necessary, as well as fully assembled pages, ready for the printing process, can be constructed by the use of CPD. Moreover, data as well as operations can be organized in distributed descriptions, and so, allow the support of networking facilities. The CPD is thereby very flexible in handling, combining and exchanging data and operations used in the construction of pages. Thus, the CPD helps bridge the gap between the printing and the Computer Graphics world, it is an approach to lead Prepress towards an open system architecture

Multipurpose interfaces for graphic arts industry. Constructive page description -CPD-. Part I. Architecture and overview

Within the paper the goals of Constructive Page Description (CPD) are outlined. CDP is able to handle arbitrary data in the area of prepress in a changable way, and it will allow distributed execution in a heterogenuous system environment. CPD builds a bridge between Computer Graphics and Graphic Arts Industry as well as it will be able to work with available systems and it will be open for future environments. This paper is the German contribution to the page imaging model discussion and describes a multipurpose interface for electronic data exchange in the graphic arts industry. It has been distributed as aworking draft within ISO TC 130/WG 2 as working draft