Editing Job Definition Format (section)

===Proofing in JDF===
In JDF 1.1, proofing and soft proofing were defined as an atomic process on which the input were all the parameters required for a successful process. This has some drawbacks:

# Lack of flexibility: the semantics is specific for one workflow therefore limited to the definition of the processes and the resources that it can take as input.
# Lack  of  control: it is difficult to define the input resources with all the information required for control.
# Duplication: similar information has to be used to define both proofing and printing. If different resources are used, this will result in duplication.

From JDF 1.2 proofing and soft proofing were deprecated in behalf of a combined process to specify the proofing workflow. The job ticket explicitly defines the processing and provides the flexibility to implement them in different workflows. In order to do that, the atomic processes were made capable of keeping all the information necessary to specify different configurations/options.