The JDF/JMF interface enables job submission to PRISMAdirect and job status feedback to JDF clients.
Job submission
The JDF clients can submit a job to PRISMAdirect by sending a JDF ticket which references the data files. However, PRISMAdirect uses a proprietary ticket. Therefore, the JDF ticket and its values must be converted into a PRISMAdirect ticket. A mapping file handles the conversion (JDF-to-PD) which specifies "what values to take from the JDF ticket and where to put them in the PRISMAdirect ticket".
Status feedback
The JDF client can request the status of the jobs. A mapping file (PD-to-JDF) handles the conversion of the job status used by PRISMAdirect into the job status used by the JDF clients.
This chapter is a specification of the two mapping tables. It describes:
The syntax of the mapping files
How to customize the mapping files for customers