Overview

Why you should complete this activity

Customer may make last minute change to the approved design file even after you have optimized, trapped and color managed the PDF file. This activity highlights how to cut the time and cost associated with managing the correction cycle. Using this Prinergy feature, you can compare the new design file with the production-ready file, highlighting the differences, and then merge all of the work from the production-ready file into the revised design file.

Audience

Prepress Operators 

Time required

Approximately 15~20 minutes

Recommended reading

• PDF Compare User Guide
• PDF Merge User Guide
• Prinergy Powerpack Workflow 7.5 Workshop User Guide search key words: Compare and merge

What you'll need

For this activity you need to locate:

• Packaging Activity Source Files/Compare & Merge/Creo_Original.pdf
• Packaging Activity Source Files/Compare & Merge/Creo_Revision.pdf

Activity specifications

If you are confident that you can complete the activity on your own, view the following naming conventions and required process template settings.

Naming convention

• Job name: XX_Compare_Merge (where XX is your initials)

Process template

• Refine process template: 1stRef-Normz