From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: PDF x1a:2001 and Context
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:22:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908270922.48568.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A95A930.8050609@wxs.nl>
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 17:29:20 Hans Hagen wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
> > PDF X/1a:2001 is an old pdf standard still required by some
> > important American printers. Han The Thanh et al. has created a
> > package for pdfLatex. I wonder if there is a route to this
> > output using Context?
>
> it depends ... what do validators report?
>
> Hans
To satisfy some US printers (e.g., LSI) the file must actually meet
the pdf/X1a:2001 standard and the file must be labeled as such
internally. It is not difficult to modify the file to pdf 1.3 format
which is essentially the same thing as pdf/X1a. But the internal
labeling is the problem. The standard solution is to run the file
through Acrobat Distiller. But that is not an Open Source product.
If the file, typically a cover layout, does not meet the above
requirements then it is pre-rasterized by the printer prior to
prepress in some product or other which degrades the quality of both
type and especially bar codes.
It is perhaps not a problem that you choose to address in Context.
But I am trying all avenues looking for an Open Source solution that
can meet these draconian requirements.
--
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-27 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-26 21:13 John Culleton
2009-08-26 21:29 ` Hans Hagen
2009-08-27 13:22 ` John Culleton [this message]
2009-08-27 13:48 ` luigi scarso
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