Job Tickets

Ghent PDF Workgroup Ad Ticket

The GWG Job Ticket subcommittee has established a standard method for including advertisement metadata with a PDF file. This work has been done in complete collaboration with AdsML and its Ad Ticket sub-group. This is an updated version as of April 27, 2011.

The most recent version is 1.2a. Click on the links below to get the specification or custom panels implementing the specification for Adobe® Creative Suite.

 

Ghent PDF Workgroup Delivery Note Ticket

The GWG Job Ticket subcommittee has developed a way to attach one or more Ad tickets to an advertisement, which can be useful for situations such as advertising campaigns. This information can be stored in a PDF as XMP information. The first version of this specification is official since January 22, 2009 and you can download it from the link below.

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Ghent PDF Workgroup Submission Ticket

The submission ticket specification is aimed at providing information to any documents submission in general. The first version 1 describes a request for soft-proofing approval. The goal of such ticket is to cover a workflow where software solutions can read the ticket, check if the document should be approved using soft-proofing, and if yes, will send per email a request for approval.

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Ghent PDF Workgroup Soft-Proofing Ticket

The GWG Soft-Proofing Ticket uses Adobe XMP specifications to attach information to a PDF file. It provides both an easy-to-understand description of the user as well as accurate details about the viewing conditions in which the document was approved. It contains a list of user names and logins, approval date, a description of the approval software and monitor set-up information including serial number, brightness level, white point values, color temperature and calibration status.

You can download the full specification using the link below.

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