Graphic Arts Industry Standards and Their Relationship to Office Automation PDL's

As the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Image Technology Committee (IT8) begins to take form and provide both recorded media based and online interfaces to prepress through its continued development of Digital Data Exchange Standards (DDES), a concern is developing as to the logical interface to the office automation world as represented by the standards making bodies of X3.V1 and CCITT. Critical technical issues in the development of interfaces between corporate publishing systems and commercial printing systems include the data base size for images, and also concerns relative to text. WYSIWYG text is a difficult and uncertain issue in this interface. Examination has been made of some of the technical reasons as to why this is. Prediction has been made of some likely future developments in this area.