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Refining
About refining
Refining is a key Prinergy process. In addition to converting your files to
PDF, it can perform copydot handling, color conversion, trapping,
thumbnail generation, and more. In most cases, you must refine your
files before you can produce quality output in Prinergy.
Refined files include embedded fonts and images, so you do not have to
manage the fonts and images of refined files.
You can choose to refine files while adding them to a job or later. When
you refine files, you select a refine process template that contains
predetermined settings. This process template guides the files through
a series of JTPs.
Note: Files can be refined multiple times in order to apply different refine process
settings. Refining also enables you to map colors.
Bypassing refine
If you are confident that your PDF input files are press-ready, you can
choose to bypass the refine process. Bypassing refine ensures that the
content does not change, and saves processing time and resources.
To bypass refine, you must use the
Bypass Refine
process template,
which will only register your PDF input files with associated colorant
and geometry attributes into the Prinergy system.
XMP metadata
Prinergy preserves XMP metadata in your input files. XMP is a
standards-based metadata schema, providing structure for your
information records.
XMP metadata can be used in a number of ways. For example, XMP
metadata can include information regarding 3rd party OPI and trapping.
It can also include information for future use, for example, whether or
