Re: PDF/X-1A

From: Antoine Junod <toto@tots-ns.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: PDF/X-1A
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:34:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877i3fg2na.fsf@zapata.tots-ns.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A3F5A4.9020009@wxs.nl> (Hans Hagen's message of "Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:00 +0100")

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> 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

I'm not sure that simple is a synonym of complient in that case...

> you can control color to some extend using settings like
>
> \setupcolors[rgb=no]

Okay I did it but it is still not accepted by my printer (with no
other details than 'not pdf/x-a1...').

> 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)

I have sadly no such tool. And I can't give the pdf to the world
because of some information that it contains... (adresses and phone
numbers of kids).

I'll povide them with jpg. But that's not really cool.

A+
-AJ
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