JDF Features¶

The use of pdfmark in PostScript can include representations of Job Definition Format (JDF) features. JDF is an extensible XML-based job ticketing format designed for use by the printing industry. Information about JDF can be obtained from http://www.cip4.org .

In particular, pdfmark for JDF allows the PostScript file/stream to specify elements and attributes to be added to a JDF document being used for a job. Applications that support JDF pdfmark include Acrobat Distiller 6.0 and 7.0.

Note

Distiller 8.0 and later does not support JDF. Any JDF-related pdfmark commands in the PostScript stream are ignored.

Syntax¶

/Attribute
string
        /Value
string
        /Subtype /CreateAttribute
        /JDF pdfmark

The Attribute and Value keys are described in the following table.

Keys supported by JDF pdfmark

Key

Type

Semantics

Attribute

string

An XPath expression that identifies the location of the attribute absolutely from the root of the JDF. If any portion of the hierarchy of elements containing the attribute is not present in the JDF, they are created. XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, as defined in XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0 available from http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath .

JDF pdfmark supports the following subset of XPath expressions:

Expression ::= JDFRoot'/'Attribute |

 JDFRoot'/'Children'/'Attribute
 JDFRoot ::= '//JDF'
 Children ::= Element | Element'/'Children
 Element ::= element |

 element'['FilterExpression']'
 FilterExpression ::=
 Filter | Filter 'and' FilterExpression | Filter

 'or' FilterExpression
 Filter ::= Attribute'='Value
 Attribute ::= '@'attribute

Values

string

The value to be assigned to the attribute, using the XPath expression:: Value ::= ‘ ” ‘value’ ” ‘

XPath Examples¶

The following table presents examples of XPath expressions.

XPath expressions

Expression	Interpretation
//JDF/@JobID	Selects the `JobID` attribute in root JDF node.
//JDF/JDFResourceLinkPool/ComponentLink/@rRef	Selects the `rRef` attribute of the `ComponentLink` found in the `ResourcePool` in the root JDF node.
//JDF/JDF[@Type=”Trapping”]/@Status	Selects the `Status` attribute of the `Trapping` node that is a child of the root JDF node.
//JDF/JDFResourceLinkPool/ComponentLink[@Usage=”Output” and @ProcessUsage=”Good”]/@rRef	First identifies the `ResourceLinkPool` of the root JDF node. It then selects the `rRef` attribute of the `ComponentLink` with both a `Usage` attribute value “Output” and a `ProcessUsage` attribute with value “Good”.

Note

In actual use, all XPath expressions should end with @ attribute because they must define the location of an attribute.

The JDF pdfmark commands shown in the following example cause supporting applications to modify the current JDF document, as illustrated in the following diagram.

Using JDF pdfmark to set Trapping element and subelement attributes

[ /Attribute (//JDF/JDF[@Type="Trapping"]/@Type)
       /Value (Trapping)
       /Subtype /CreateAttribute /JDF pdfmark
 [ /Attribute
       (//JDF/JDF[@Type="Trapping"]/ResourceLinkPool/TrappingDetailsLink/@rRef)
       /Value (TD1)
       /Subtype /CreateAttribute /JDF pdfmark
 [ /Attribute
       (//JDF/JDF[@Type="Trapping"]/ResourceLinkPool/TrappingDetailsLink
       [@rRef="TD1"]/@Usage)
       /Value (Input)
       /Subtype /CreateAttribute /JDF pdfmark

The following shows the JDF structure created through JDF pdfmark in the preceding example.