Ghent Output Suite launched

The Ghent Workgroup has released a new test suite designed to help professionals determine whether PDF files are behaving as expected in graphic arts workflows. GWG is the international congress of graphic arts professionals established to create, test and disseminate best practices and specifications for publishing workflows. The test suite was created by the Process Control sub-committee, chaired by F E Burman's Andy Psarianos.

The Suite is a set of patches distributed as PDF files, which can be used to identify problem areas within a workflow.The suite includes patches for overprints, output intents, default colour spaces, and font handling. They have been carefully constructed to allow effects that are in real-life situations too subtle to be seen clearly and unambiguously, and this should be taken into account when evaluating the results of any tests based on these patches.

The patches are freely availabel on the Ghent Workgroup website: http://www.gwg.org