From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47711 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: PDF/X-1A Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:00 +0100 Message-ID: <49A3F5A4.9020009@wxs.nl> References: <87tz6kugex.fsf@zapata.tots-ns.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235482145 23659 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 13:29:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:29:05 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Feb 24 14:30:20 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LbxMI-00053T-Gr for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:30:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98671FC01; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:28:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03344-02-3; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA6C1FB77; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6891FB77 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03273-02-2 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-til.mf.surf.net (filter1-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.217]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2001FBBA for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter1-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n1ODR00K008052 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:01 +0100 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 13961-1840426 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:00 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: <87tz6kugex.fsf@zapata.tots-ns.net> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=16; city=Dronten; latitude=52.5333; longitude=5.7167; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5333,5.7167&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 184485697 - fb5474c4650d X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.217 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:47711 Archived-At: Antoine Junod wrote: > Dear List, > > A lot of you guys helped me through the process of setting a little > booklet and I have to say I was proud of the result (44 full color > pages with a lot of pictures and texts). Thanks for that. > > I'm now in the process of printing that booklet. I was happy to send > my beautiful pdf to the printer for 250 copies, pdf file that has been > refused because not in a PDF/X-1A format. > > I googled a bit and learned a bit about that: wikipedia has a good > article [0] on the topic and there is LaTeX package (pdfx) for pdfTeX > that has a good doc about that [1]. In short, PDF/X-1A is a set of > rules and subset of PDF that ensures that the document will be see > exactly the same for the editor and the printer (embed every fonts, > use only CMYK and son on). > > Here is my question: is it possible to produce such documents with > ConTeXt? It is quite frustrating to provide my printer with huge jpeg > files. the pdf code produced by pdftex/luatex is rather stupid in the sense that it is rather compliant you can control color to some extend using settings like \setupcolors[rgb=no] also, you can avoid interactive features what does the pdf validator of acrobat say? maybe the printer is bit picky on aspects that don't really matter (like having some specific key in a dictionary telling thisorthat) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________