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Samskara - Perfecting PDF Portability

Samskara - Perfecting PDF PortabilityStandard PDFs are not secure. Standard PDFs can have font issues. Standard PDFs can have image issues. Standard PDFs give different results on different systems. Standard PDFs can be large.


Samskara (from Sanskrit meaning
“..a making perfect”) resolves these problems.


  • Samskara is a workflow solution that simplifies, streamlines and automates font-free portable, secure RIPed PDF creation.
  • Samskara strips out redundant information from the file resulting in very small PDFs. SmartObject technology re-uses outlines to further reduce filesize.
  • Samskara PDFs can be used for output to existing PostScript Level 2 systems.
  • Samskara can also output the same RIPed data in Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3 PostScript formats thereby maximizing the return for legacy systems.
  • Samskara PDFs contain only the very basic building blocks of information with no external dependencies for output.
  • Ideal as a front end to resolve problems in other workflow systems.
  • Can generate 2 PDFs. High resolution for output (or input to other workflow) and a low resolution for emailing to clients for approval.

Simple operation
Samskara workflows are easily setup within a matter of seconds. Default processing parameters for new queues mean minimal setup time and a very short learning curve. Samskara is set to run straight “out of the box”.


Image handling
All input to Samskara is RIPed into basic job components. Images are stripped down to just the visible elements. A variety of encoding schemes offer both lossless and lossy image compression. Samskara can simultaneously generate two PDFs, one high resolution and one low resolution. Image resolution for the latter is fully under user control. The resultant small and fontfree PDF is easily emailable for client approval and remote proofing.


SmartObjects
Samskara uses the same SmartObject technology first developed for the high end SmartMove workflow system. This technology defines and re-uses RIPed objects thereby consolidating its internal datasets. The net result is even smaller PDF generation.


Ink re-mapping
An ink remapping feature allows C, CV, CVC and U Pantone variants to be automatically mapped to the lowest level thereby saving production time, material costs and re-work.


Watermarks
A watermark feature allows watermarking and stamping of files onto the currently processing job. A fully comprehensive set of functions for rotation, scaling, step & repeat, positioning and offsetting means that this feature can be used for a variety of purposes, from watermarking or adding colourbars through to automatically producing different language versions of a job.


Pre-flight
A very comprehensive PDF pre-flight function can be enabled for each workflow. “Allow” “Warn” and “Reject” settings for each parameter give fine tuning of job control.


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