On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Bart C. Wise
<bntgcontext@wiseguysweb.com>wrote:

> On Tue January 20 2009 7:06:58 am Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> > 2009/1/20 Bart C. Wise <bntgcontext@wiseguysweb.com>:
> > > I talked to the publisher again and he said that he would send me the
> > > exact error message, but I have not received it yet.  But he did say
> that
> > > his printing shop wants the ability to download just the header
> > > information from a pdf rather than the whole pdf file which may be up
> to
> > > 80 mbytes.  From that header information they will have the ability to
> > > render individual pages rather than the whole document.  For example,
> > > they could request page 264 and render that single page as a jpeg.
> >
> > This sounds like "web optimized" PDFs, those contain a second object
> > index at the start ("normal" PDFs have it at the end), so a *browser*
> > can request selected pages from the *webserver* without loading the
> > whole document.
> >
> > It's meant as a web technology, and I never heard of anyone using it
> > in a print workflow. But it's not impossible.
> >
> >
> > Tha has *nothing* to do with tagged PDF!
> > "Tagged" is a technology to enable re-flowing text contents to e.g.
> > small devices or extracting of content for alternative readers, e.g.
> > screenreaders.
> > PDFs for print should *not* be tagged in this way, for it can confuse
> > a print workflow.
> >
> > Printshops should adhere to printing standards like PDF/X-1a and
> > PDF/X-3 - and these never need web optimization or tagging!
>
> Excuse the ignorance, but does LuaTeX produce a PDF based on the PDF/X-1a
> and
> PDF/X-3 standards?
>

For ghostscript
 http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/svn/Ps2pdf.htm

for pdftex
 http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfx

I'm not sure if luatex can produce these kind of pdf

-- 
luigi