Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

Edit JDF job definitions

Job definitions can come from a number of sources, including InDesign CS2 and later, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional and later. You can edit these job definitions using the Edit JDF Job Definitions dialog box.

The Contacts Manager and Media Manager both open dialog boxes for specifying information you can apply to each component in the print job.

Edit a job definition

You can add various types of files to the JDF, including PDFs, InDesign files, Word files, PostScript files, and so on.

  1. In the JDF Job Definitions dialog box, select the job definition, and click Edit.
  2. Expand the items on the left, and do any of the following:

    • To change the order in which the components will be printed, select a component and click the Move Up or Move Down button at the bottom.

    • To add a second-level element to the hierarchy, click Add Section.

    • To add a file to the job definition, click Add File, locate the file, and then specify the page range you want to include in the print job using options in the General tab.

      Add the files in the order in which they will be printed—for example, front cover, body, back cover.

    • To modify other settings, select a component, click a tab, and modify the settings as desired.

  3. When you finish, click OK, or click another tab to edit more options.

General tab options

Product Name
A unique name for the product or print job.

Job ID/Job Part ID
Job identification or reference code used by people involved with the job.

Submit To
Lists the available production sites that have been set up using the Submission Manager. Select the production site for the print the job, or leave as Unspecified to postpone this decision until submit time. (See Create submission site instructions.)

Preflight Profile
Uses the criteria in the selected preflight profile to validate the Adobe PDF files in the print job. The preflight profile is determined by the production site specified in the Submit To option.

PDF Conversion Settings
Converts non-Adobe PDF files using the settings in the selected Adobe PDF settings file. The conversion settings are determined by the production site specified in the Submit To option.

Preflight Status
Indicates whether the JDF file and its associated documents have been submitted and inspected using the Preflight tool. This option also indicates whether any issues were identified. This information is embedded in JDF audit, a metadata element that JDF-enabled production systems can read to determine if the PDF is ready to move to the next step of the process.

Description
Lets you add comments to the job definition for the receiver of the job definition.

Use Binding
Exposes the Type and Side menus for setting a binding specification.

Customer Info tab options

Use the Customer Info options to identify the customer and others critical to the project.

Billing Code
A code to bill charges incurred during production.

Customer ID
Customer identification used to match this job definition to a billing or higher-level MIS (Management Information System). This ID is usually the internal customer number of the MIS that created the job.

Customer Job
The name that the customer uses to refer to the job.

Customer Order ID
The internal order number that represents the contract between the commercial printer and the customer. This number is usually provided when the order is placed, and then referenced on any correspondence between the printer and the customer referring to this job, including bills, change orders, deliveries, and so on.

Contacts
A list of people involved with the job and their roles.