PDFxMakerPro is installed from the CD to a directory on your Delta Rip Station. The Delta Rip is then shutdown and the software protection dongle is attached to the back of the Delta dongle and the system restarted. The application can be protected with the license file instead of the dongle. Then you should follow the installer instructions to setup and enable your license.

PDFxMakerPro can now be started from the Start menu under Programs for the initial setup. At this moment you can change the default settings.


You can define the rules for the output files naming using the "Make Output File Name of…" radio buttons and select unique naming using the "If the Output File Exists…" radio buttons.

Enable the "Trapping" checkbox to include the Delta trapping data into the resulting file.

"Pages in One file" option is useful only for multi-page jobs. The application PDFxMakerPro can create more than one output files for such jobs and you can define how many pages of the job every PDF file should have.

Use "Mirrored output" to mirror the page in your output file.

Use "Rotated" to rotate the pages in your result file if it's needed.

One of the most useful new features of PDFxMakerPro is the "Output Resolution" option. It provides a flexible instrument that can tune output files resolution for any given resolution of the source files.
You can set PDFxMakerPro to produce different output resolutions for different goals, for instance, for best interface to Ink Jet Printers. Typically Ink Jet Printers use Resolution values 360, 720, 1440 DPI. If resolution of the output PDF/X1 file exactly matches the printer's resolution then the fastest interface and optimal production quality will be reached.

The "Output Resolution" option allows to integrate PDFxMakerPro into Remote Online Proofing process. You can set a small resolution value and output a PDF file that would load fast to any web browser interface with even a slow internet connection. After the proofing has been complete you can just change the Output Resolution value to output the final approved job.

In DeltaList files the colors are defined by symbolic names. Special Ink Tables are used in order to refer them to the CMYK equivalents for computer presentation. Ink Table is a file where all standard PANTONE inks are listed with their CMYK equivalent values. Such Ink Table file contains in the installer and is placed into the application's working directory. You don't have to execute any actions to set up this default table with the PDFxMakerPro.
Often the Delta users want to define their own colors and insert them into the Ink Table used by the Delta RIP. If you want to use your Delta Ink Table with PDFxMakerPro you can add it to the list of Ink Tables clicking on the "Add" button.
After you have configured the software the options would be stored and then used for all jobs that PDFxMakerPro processes. But you can change the options for any selected job. Use the Job Ticket (JT) for that job to apply individual options. If you run the application with a JT then the parameters from the JT take effect. Currently the job tickets for PDFxMakerPro are created in XML format. You don't have to edit the JT manually. PDFxMakerPro will save the parameters you define in a JT that you can later use with your jobs. Start PDFxMakerPro, set all necessary options and press the "Job Ticket…" button to save your settings.

The "PDF/X Options" button opens the dialog where you can additionally tune your resulting PDF/X files.You can select a special ICC Output Profile, e.g. to convert DeltaLists CMYK to the device color space.

Use "OutputConditionIdentifier" and "RegistryName" edit boxes to set PDF/X specific key values in the output intention dictionary.

Check the "Get Destination Output Profile From" checkbox to optionally embed a selected profile into the output PDF file. It will then be reffered as DestOutputProfile key value of the output intention dictionary.

Examples of the ICC profiles usage in PDFxMakerPro

PDF/X specific features include the values for keywords of the PDF/X output intent dictionary. See also ISO 15930-3 specification for PDF/X-3 for more information about PDF/X format.

With PDF/X format you can include the ICC data of a certain output device into the PDF file. Thus a desktop application will display the file on the monitor looking exactly the same as if it has been output to that device. A desktop application can have limitations working with PDF files that have embedded ICC. For instance, AcroRead 6.0 allows to test this option of the PDF/X format but you will be able to visualize the difference of different ICC profiles' usage only if they are profiles of the actual output devices (have the PRTR signature) and use Working Space CMYK.

The picture shows two PDF/X files opened in AcroRead 6.0 that were generated by PDFxMakerPro using different ICC profiles. The GreenPageWithout.pdf was generated without using a custom ICC profile, the GreenPage_ICC.pdf was generated using the profile Color LW 12 600 PS Profile.icc.