PDF Engine from Adobe

After Adobe announced the complete PDF engine- more than 2 years ago- from scratch many experts and articles predicted that this is the end of Postscript
But somehow still PS rip Engine from all vendors are the dominated technology
And ironically majority of PDF generated by Distiller!!
This ensures the demands that Adobe must develop PS 4.0? It was rumor and perhaps it will be true
Regards
Dr. Adam

- I am sure all Productioncut sheet printers color or mono from vendors like Xerox, Oce, konica Minolta, Canon, Ricoh did not implement PDF Engine and still working on PS Engine!
This simply means all generation of PS data stream either through VDP system or Windows Driver which require PS Engine.
- I agree that platesetter RIP manufacturers had moved to PDF Engine as PDF format became the standard format for Prepress.and even some large format production printer are using PDF engine with PS beside as option.
But on the other hand Rip manufacturers for Digital Printers are having PDF engine in their portfolio but not yet fully used by their customers of the Rip. EFI e.g.
- The PDF imaging model has diverged so much from PostScript since 1997 that somehow extending PostScript to match the features of PDF (including support for live transparency, layers, ICC color management, JPEG2000 compression, annotations, etc.)
I fully agree but
No body expect the new PS Engine to be equal/parallel to those powerful features in PDF Engine
but perhaps a PS enhancement for more memory , color management .... others enhancement which behind the subject of this thread.. etc than the current version !
PS. The fact which I see , The Power of Postscript Engine and the Industry related to it might take longer time to be replaced by PDF and this period of transisition extended (or will be extended) above the expectation of many vendors and perhaps Adobe itself !!
Regards
Dr. Adam

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