Seamless publication using 3D proofing

Abstract

The main motivation of this work is to expose professional level commercial print services to broad non-professional markets. In spite of increasing simplicity in content creation due to advances in authoring tools, publishing is still complex and reserved for professionals. To that end, there is high potential value in eliminating or reducing the barriers for non-experts to submit jobs for commercial printing, and in seamlessly connecting new non-professional content sources to the commercial printing environments. Our solution simplifies and automates the submission process by providing a workflow to replace the complex interaction between print buyers and commercial print experts. A key enabler for this workflow is an interactive and intuitive interface, which provides a soft proof of the finished product by a high-fidelity 2.5D/3D interactive model that captures the geometry and dynamic layout of the print product. ©2012 Society for Imaging Science and Technology.