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From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: issue with external image and PDF/A-3a
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 21:05:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsBM+Nr8+BD_GbAeHrOEpzacxk1Dm-abYPWxMYRBSdvczg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a830974-d7f9-3ad3-aa58-542c201173e8@gmx.es>

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have this minimal sample:
>
>     \setupbackend
>       [format=PDF/A-3a,
>        intent=sRGB IEC61966-2.1,
>        profile={sRGB.icc,default_gray.icc},
>        level=0]
>
>     \setuptagging[state=start]
>
>     \setupcolors[cmyk=no]
>
>     \startTEXpage[offset=1em]
>     \externalfigure[transparent]
>     \stopTEXpage
>     \stoptext
>
> The external figure is available from
> http://pdf.ousia.tk/transparent.pdf (and output file at
> http://pdf.ousia.tk/transparent-pdf-a-3a.pdf).
>
> Using veraPDF (http://verapdf.org/), the output document doesn’t comply
> with the validation profile requirements.
>
> As Luigi wisely predicted, external images may be problematic.
>
> I get one error, because of the color of the external figure:
> https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-validation-profiles/wiki/PDFA-Parts-2-and-3-rules#rule-6243-2.
>
> The PDF object in question is the following:
>
>     12 0 obj
>     <<
>       /Type /XObject
>       /Subtype /Form
>       /FormType 1
>       /BBox [ 0 0 316.896 215.5669 ]
>       /Group <<
>         /Type /Group
>         /S /Transparency
>         /I true
>         /CS /DeviceRGB
>       >>
>       /Resources 21 0 R
>       /Length 71
>     >>
>     stream
>     q
>     0.188235 0.392157 0 rg /a0 gs
>     28.348 187.219 260.203 -158.871 re f
>     Q
>     endstream
>     endobj
>
> Well, this is a minimal sample, but my real document is much bigger. Is
> there any way to convert the stream to something that ConTeXt can handle
> directly?


hm, the only reliable way that I know w is to convert it to a flattened png
$> convert transparent.pdf -density 300 -colorspace RGB -flatten transparent.png

-- 
luigi
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-05 18:18 Pablo Rodriguez
2017-10-05 19:05 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2017-10-05 20:40   ` Pablo Rodriguez
2017-10-05 20:52     ` installing ConTeXt on ARM linux Floris van Manen
2017-10-06  6:31       ` Hans Hagen
2017-10-06  7:10       ` Mojca Miklavec
2017-10-06  9:46         ` Hans Hagen
2017-10-06 10:37           ` Floris van Manen
2017-10-06 11:42             ` Risposta: " MF
2017-10-06 12:57               ` Hans Hagen
2017-10-06 14:06               ` Floris van Manen
2017-10-06 14:42                 ` Risposta: " MF
2017-10-10 14:35     ` issue with external image and PDF/A-3a Peter Rolf
2017-10-10 20:15       ` Pablo Rodriguez

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