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Various organisations have already concerned themselves with the subject of data exchange and made corresponding recommendations. Whereas some of these recommendations only relate to the exchange of advertisements in periodicals, others are more comprehensive in their range and application, but do not offer specific working procedures. Ugra (Association for the Promotion of Research in the Graphic Arts Industry in Switzerland) has decided to prepare specific guidelines for the handling of data exchange. To ensure that they can be applied in the practice, investigations have been carried out with a test document and on various output devices. The Ugra specification is based on the PDF file format. The specification explains the workflow from the data provider to the receiver. The starting point is the (native( file. The most important steps are: Npreflight checking Nproofing Nconversion to the exchange format Ndefinition of the job ticket Ndata transmission Ntrapping definition Npage imposition.