During this process, PostScript documents are interpreted and converted to the PDF format. The Prinect Manager is designed to process documents solely in the PDF format. This means that all the steps performed after Normalizing require that the documents are available as PDFs.
Note: CEPS conversion is required for TIFF/IT-P1 documents.
The Normalizer is usually not needed for documents that are already available as PDFs.
Exceptions:
•Transparencies are to be flattened,
•PDF documents are to be converted to PDF/VT,
•Japanese fonts are to be integrated.
Note: Usually, the Normalizer does not influence input PDF documents. Exceptions to this rule will be dealt with explicitly below when the single parameters are described.
Normalizing is done by a "Normalizer" engine. It is the task of the Normalizer to make sure that PostScript input documents are available as PDFs for processing in the Prinect workflow and that, if necessary, they will be edited in such a way that warrants that further processing will be as error-free as possible.
Note: You can install the Normalizer in two different versions (depending on the enabled license). For that reason, not all the functions described may be available on your system.
PS Normalizer
The capabilities of this Normalizer version more or less can be compared to those of the Adobe Acrobat Distiller but the Normalizer only allows settings that are suited to further processing in the Prinect workflow.
Note: The Normalizer fully supports PDF documents up to PDF version 1.7 (as of Acrobat 8) and PDF/VT documents (multiple page PDF format).
Input PDF documents (as of PDF 1.4) that have transparency layers can be converted so that there is only one layer in which the single layers with their visible parts are portrayed. We recommend that you flatten transparency elements in the "Qualify" or "Prepare" sequence. As an alternative, flattening can also be done in the connected RIP (Raster Image Processor).
This flattening can be done by the Normalizer ("Preserve Transparency" option disabled). To avoid issues with transparency elements, we strongly recommend that you use transparency flattening in the Prepare sequence or leave it to the RIP to do.
Documents in file formats other than PDF or PostScript like, e.g. TIFF/IT-P1, must be converted to PDF with "CEPS Conversion" or must be saved again as PostScript or PDF documents with the DTP application so that they can be processed.
Note: TIFF or JPEG files can also be edited but because of the multitude of variants found with these formats, no guarantee can be given that all these variants can be processed.
As of Acrobat version XI, several PDF files, and even other files of a different type, can be grouped in a "portfolio". The Prinect Normalizer can unpack Acrobat portfolios and copy the PDF pages in them to a print job. The names of the pages are based on the name of the portfolio.
"on" list box
In this box, you can select the Normalizer that will be used in this sequence if there are a number of Normalizer engines in your system environment. Generally, you can use the default setting "AllNormalizers". You can also select a server that may have a lower workload if there are several Prinect servers in your system environment.