From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/54465 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: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:57:50 -0500 Message-ID: <200911170857.50208.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <200910301148.07496.john@wexfordpress.com> <200911020822.41757.john@wexfordpress.com> <4AEEE069.3020405@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 1258473394 27867 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2009 15:56:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:56:34 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Nov 17 16:56:27 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 1NAQPq-0002di-7j for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:56:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C87C9B10; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:54:03 +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 qDLuUJbWk8tq; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2359C9B0D; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96186C9B0D for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:50 +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 iRcxU5qXF0Pz for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:47 +0100 (CET) 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 9A65FC9AF9 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from OMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.11]) by QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6CmN1d0070EZKEL56Fw7Eu; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:56:07 +0000 Original-Received: from sda5.localnet ([68.50.233.152]) by OMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6Fw41d00Q3HwwZ83MFw44e; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:56:05 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29.6-smp; KDE/4.2.4; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4AEEE069.3020405@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:54465 Archived-At: On Monday 02 November 2009 08:36:41 Hans Hagen wrote: > John Culleton wrote: > > The documentation for pdfx goes through the source section by > > section and discusses what each does. > > it's easier for me to preflight a file and see what acrobat reports > > btw, things like color and fonts are easy as one can configure this; and > there might be a few additional resources needed but that's easy > > in my experience the problem is more with embedded graphics and these > are out of our control > > Hans > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma- ade.com > > | www.pragma-pod.nl > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________ >________ 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________ >________ There are two tasks for crating a PDF x/1-a:2001 file. First limits must be imposed per the standard. Second the pdf file must "look" like a PDF x1-a:2001 file to the printer and his software. The tag at the top of the file is of course trivial. But there is some xml code embedded also. If a dummy file were created in e.g., pdf 1.4, and then a copy were made in Distiller with PDF X/1-a:2001, then a differential analysis could show out the elements (e.g., xml code) spelled out above. In Linux I would use the diff command but I don't think that is available to Windows users. Scribus will soon produce PDF X/1-a:2001 documents. It is already a menu choice in the alpha version Scribus 1.5.0. But the code behind the menu choice isn't in place yet. When it is I will do a diff run on two versions of the same file and see what is different. -- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________