From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/53986 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Producing PDF x/1-a:2001 output. Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:22:41 -0400 Message-ID: <200911020822.41757.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <200910301148.07496.john@wexfordpress.com> <200910301248.32191.john@wexfordpress.com> <4AEB2F4A.70003@wxs.nl> Reply-To: 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 1257168187 23492 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2009 13:23:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:23:07 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 02 14:23:00 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 1N4ws8-00057z-C1 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:23:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE74C9AE3; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:21:28 +0100 (CET) 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 4uXIbGHdc-UC; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:21:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 066BAC9AC1; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:21:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5A1C9AC1 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:21:23 +0100 (CET) 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 I2sr2NTzF6-w for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:21:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from QMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E41C9AB7 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:21:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from OMTA21.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.72]) by QMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0BY01d0011ZXKqc52DNhHW; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:22:41 +0000 Original-Received: from sda5.localnet ([68.50.233.152]) by OMTA21.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0DVi1d0033HwwZ83hDViiw; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:29:42 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29.6-smp; KDE/4.2.4; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4AEB2F4A.70003@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:53986 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________