From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/52568 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: PDF x1a:2001 and Context Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:22:48 -0400 Message-ID: <200908270922.48568.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <200908261713.22148.john@wexfordpress.com> <4A95A930.8050609@wxs.nl> Reply-To: john@wexfordpress.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251378887 16855 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2009 13:14:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:14:47 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 27 15:14:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MgeoJ-0004ok-JN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:14:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4F4C9A7C; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:14:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id kfoFWtDt6zsl; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:14:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B70D2C9A47; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:14:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4E1C9A47 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:14:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Y2rLhz7vus9s for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:14:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8229EC9A1F for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:14:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from OMTA24.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.76]) by QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ZPec1c0041ei1Bg56REF6H; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:14:15 +0000 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.108] ([68.50.233.152]) by OMTA24.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ZRJK1c0043HwwZ83kRJL1R; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:18:20 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 In-Reply-To: <4A95A930.8050609@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:52568 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________