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FIERY SYSTEM 8e - Quick reference FIERY SYSTEM 8e RELEASE 2 FEATURE NAME Page Description Languages Fiery System 8e New & Enhanced Features, Advantages & Benefits Standard Features KEY FUNCTIONS & FEATURES • Fiery interprets the following native file formats: • PostScript (PS). • Portable Document Format (PDF v1.5). • Native PDF v1.6, Acrobat 7's native format. • Encapsulated PostScript Format (EPS). • Tagged Image File Format (TIFF v6). FIERY ADVANTAGE • Is industry-leading interpreter. .Development ensures compatibility. • Fiery supports the latest version of industry standard file formats. • This capability includes the support of PDF/X files. CUSTOMER BENEFITS • Keeping up to date with the latest PDLs , ensures compatibility: • Takes advantage of any new functionality. • Fiery now supports PDF v1.6, the native file format of Acrobat 7: • Most non-Adobe interpreters (clones) currently do not support PDF v1.6. • PDF-X Standard provides portability, predictability and consistency. • Critical to digital ad exchange. • CPSI 3017 technology allows direct printing and support of native PDF 1.6 and PDF/X files. PostScript 3 • 136 Adobe PS fonts installed. • PS Font backup support. • TIFF v6. • Downloaded native PDF print support. • PDF/X support. • Optimized PDF support: • Optimized PDF allows Fiery to optimize its rendering of PDF files with X-Objects. • Double Byte Font Support (CID fonts only). • Spot color support (in PS, EPS, and PDF). • EFI's development and support for industry standard Adobe PostScript 3 ensures file compatibility as well as optimized and productive PostScript printing. • The updated CPSI (Configurable PostScript Interpreter) version increases the level of compatibility with client applications used by Fiery users. • Direct printing and support of native PDF 1.6 and PDF/X files • This co-developed version of CPSI 3017 provides optimized technology that allows the direct printing of PostScript and support of native PDF 1.6 and PDF/X files. Since Adobe also developed the PostScript and PDF languages, it stands to reason that an interpreter (RIP) developed with Adobe's participation prints these files more accurately than the clone RIPs often found at the lower end of the market. Portable Document Format (PDF v1.6) • Several features have been recently introduced in the PDF 1.6 file format including the following significant additions that are supported by Fiery: • Transparency features that are now native in Adobe graphics and layout programs provide effects such as soft drop shadows, feathered edges, and layered graphics that blend into one another. Designers use transparency effects to blend text with pictures, and pictures with pictures. • Overprint feature provides an ink preview that closely approximates how objects will appear when printed on an offset press. • Ability to display images using JPEG2000 compression and to allow 16-bit images. • An extension to the use of streams to allow greater compression of PDF files. • Watermark Annotation. • Embedded PDF 1.6 OpenType font. • AES Encryption. • PDF files larger than 2 gigabytes in size. • EFI's development and support of Adobe PDF printing standards empowers Fiery with the highest levels of file compatibility and assures speedy processing of all files. • Customers can take advantage of the new functionality in PDF 1.6, increasing capability and productivity. • PDF/X workflow provides more portability, predictability and consistency for all jobs. • A critical function for digital ad exchange, support for PDF/X workflow streamlines operation. 2