| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus for producing normalized (or "washed") graphic image files that have a consistent file structure, the graphic image files thereafter being used to produce a consistent print ready file structure. A source, or unprocessed, image file is first converted into a vector-based medium file and stored. This vector-based medium includes a PDF file format, with the conversion routine using Adobe Distiller for producing PDF files. The vector-based medium file is thereafter retrieved and converted into a consistently structured file, which can be used by a variety of applications associated with a printing process. The consistent structure file includes PostScript, and in particular ASCII Level 1 PostScript. The washing routine is intended to be performed as a Prepress operation to creating the overlying print ready file, and can be automated as needed. This Prepress operation can run on a farm service and be managed by a master farm server, with load balancing of Prepress operations to improve performance of the overall system. |
