[scribus] PDFX1A

[Steven Dayton]

Side question. Are there plans to implement later pdf versions than 1.4?

Steven

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Christoph Schäfer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de
> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 7. April 2009 18:48:57 schrieb John Culleton:
>
> >
> > The only sure  way I know to get to this obsolete but
> > required format is via Adobe Distiller.  My alternate
> > recommendation is to  save the file selecting the pdf 1-3
> > standard in Scribus. To flatten it load it into Open Office
> > Writer, save to a print file, and then use the Ghostcript
> > script ps2pdf13 to put it back into pdf form.
>
> No that's a pretty odd and unreliable way.
>
> To create a PDF/X-1a compliant file one has to:
>
> 1) Embed all fonts (if that's not possible, they can be converted to
> outlines)
>
> 2) Use PDF version 1.3 for export
>
> 3) Convert all colours to CMYK (output target "Printer")
>
> If the file contains transparencies, export to PDF 1.4, open the PDF in
> Adobe
> Reader and print to a PostScript file. Then use ps2pdf13 on the command
> line
> to create a flattened PDF 1.3. PDF/X-1a is a subset of 1.3, so that a
> printer
> that requires X-1a shouldn't have any issue with your file.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Christoph
>
>
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