Re: Producing PDF x/1-a:2001 output.

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Friday 30 October 2009 14:24:10 Hans Hagen wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
> > The needed files and the documentation for pdfx.sty are 
located
> > here:
> > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfx/
> >
> >
> > The files in the package include:
> >
> >
> > README
> > glyphtounicode-cmr.tex
> > manifest.txt
> > pdfa-1b.xmp
> > pdfx-1a.xmp
> > pdfx.pdf
> > pdfx.sty
> > small2e.pdf
> > small2e.tex
> > small2e.xmpdata
>
> hm, so you want me to reverse engineer latex code ... (which 
probably
> costs me more time than figuring it out from specs)
>
> anyhow, from the filename i conclude that
>
> - it has to do with unicode maps (is already supported)
> - xmp data (this big xml blob in pdf files)
>
> xmp is not yet supported but is probably as trivial (as it is 
useless);
> i'll look it up in the spec
>
> Hans

The major thing about pdf x/1-a:2001 is that it limits what you can 
do, for example no RGB, no transparencies as such, no layers and 
file must be flattened. Fonts must be embedded but that is 
required in any case. 

The documentation for pdfx goes through the source section by 
section and discusses what each does.  

HTH
-- 
John Culleton
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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