Hi Roddy,
you'd be our Hero!

 

Hey Alexus (and everyone else),

Thank you for the feedback. I haven't played around with Corel Draw x4 before but it is good to know it works. I have been able to open in Illustrator with all the layers intact (although the fonts go kind of crazy). Doing a bit of research and i can't find anything regarding layer preservation in Photoshop, im sure someone who is smarter than me may be able to so it though. But at this stage im not going to focus on being able to edit the final pdf (you can do that in the product designer and then output again) but more on outputting a pdf that is better suited to send to a printer (specifically digital printer).

Ill get together a beta version of the plugin in the next week and upload it here. if anyone plans to use it please don't use it on live websites and make sure you have a working and tested backup (for WP akeeba is really good). As I will not take any responsibility if it wrecks your site (it shouldn't though). Then we can look at refining it and getting everything working correctly.

Corel Draw x4

 

Hello Alexus, can you tell me how (with which software) you opened the PDF file ?

 

Hi Roddy! Yes your PDF perfect for printing. It have layers so can be edit.

 

I agree with Etienne but one should not pay attention to one program only, like Photoshop. Let's not forget that Indesign and Illustrator are widely used and in south America Corel is king. It's very important that this new module or addon is compatible with all the main programs used in the print business. As for the colour profiles, perhaps the best is if one can load different presets and export according to the loaded preset...

Roddy,
I am also definitely interested. Actually I am still waiting for Radykal to give some sort of estimate as to when this feature could become available - but we may also start to develop our own module for the FPD if there is not some sort of solution soon. The problem is that we have different needs than for the "standard" printing industry, but a layered PDF would be great.

When I open your PDF file in photoshop, I get only one layer though.

Please have a look at the PDF that I attached here - it's your original PDF but I added one image and one text layer. If I open that file back in photoshop, I do have the layers and can even edit the text...

Let me know if you need help, we could join forces.

Thanks
Etienne

 

Major interest here! A standard Adobe colour profile though is a must! (PDF/X-4a:2010)

Hi Roddy ! 

Yes, some interest still here. I will contact a client tomorrow about your test file and keep you in touch.

Hello everyone. I am looking to build a WP plugin that will build a PDF properly through TCPDF. Im just seeing if there is still interest. There will be some limitations (specifically with curved text).

im thinking it should have the ability to set margins, crop marks and clip images correctly. I am not in the print industry and have attached a test pdf. if someone could please let me know if it would be suitable to send to a printer (despite the RGB colour profile)

Any news Radykal?

+1 here ! This subject has 2 years old... I hope we will see this feature in less than 2 other years 

Any news on this?

I've currently been using the image export option rather than pdf and choosing SVG format. This way I at least have the text with correct font and size as long as you have the same fonts installed. It also embeds the svg and png artwork. The only downside for me is jpg - it doesn't embed but links. This requires manually download the linked JPEGs via ftp or something.

I agree a batch export feature is needed.