From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47737 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Junod Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: PDF/X-1A Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:34:17 +0100 Message-ID: <877i3fg2na.fsf@zapata.tots-ns.net> References: <87tz6kugex.fsf@zapata.tots-ns.net> <49A3F5A4.9020009@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 1235496974 23288 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 17:36:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:36:14 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Feb 24 18:37:29 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 1Lc1DX-0005I5-JT for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:37:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AAD1FC78; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:35:52 +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 19733-01; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:34:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2205B1FC24; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:34:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C01B1FC24 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:34:57 +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 19541-01 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:34:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-til.mf.surf.net (filter2-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.218]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82EA11FC1A for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:34:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from zapata.tots-ns.net (zapata.tots-ns.net [213.239.193.37]) by filter2-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n1OHYHRF028653 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:34:18 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 27537 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Feb 2009 17:34:17 -0000 In-Reply-To: <49A3F5A4.9020009@wxs.nl> (Hans Hagen's message of "Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:00 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.239.193.37; country=DE; region=02; city=Gunzenhausen; latitude=49.1000; longitude=10.7500; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=49.1000,10.7500&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 184632120 - 89769e5ebf82 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 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:47737 Archived-At: Hans Hagen 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. 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