[scribus] Free conversion of cover files to PDF X/1-a:2001

[José Antonio Rocha]

2012/9/15 john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com>

> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:51:42 -0300
> José Antonio Rocha <joseantoniorocha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2012/9/14 john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com>
> >
> > > Scribus 1.4.x won't produce an output in PDF X/1-a:2001 format
> >
> >
> > Ghostscript > 9 now does the job:
> >
> > C:\> gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> > -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK -sOutputFile=doc_CMYK.pdf
> > -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 "C:\Program
> > files\gs\gs9.06\lib\PDFA_def.ps" doc.pdf
> >
> > In the file PDFA_def.ps, set the apropriate ICC.
> >
>
> PDF/A and PDF X/a-1 are different animals. To pass muster at LSI
> the following tags must be present:
>
> %PDF-1.3
> ...
> /GTS_PDFXVersion (PDF/X-1:2001)
> /GTS_PDFXConformance (PDF/X-1a:2001)
> etc.
>
> Will Ghostscriipt embed those tags?
>

I hope so. You can try put this in PDFA_def.ps file.

>From GS docs (c:/Program files/gs/gs9.06/doc/Ps2pdf.htm#PDFA):

> 8 Creating a PDF/A document
>
> To create a PDF/A document, please follow the instructions for creating a
> PDF/X-3 document, with the following exceptions :
>
>    - Specify the pdfwrite device or use the ps2pdf script.
>    - Specify the -dPDFA option to specify PDF/A-1 or PDF/A-2.
>    - Specify -sProcessColorModel=DeviceGray, -sProcessColorModel=DeviceRGBor
>    -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK You must specify a ProcessColorModel,
>    even if you plan to create a device-independent colour PDF file using
>    -dUseCIEColor.
>    - Specify the -dUseCIEColor option if necessary (see PDF/X above).
>    - Specify a PDF/A definition file before running the input document.
>    It provides additional information to be included in the output document. A
>    sample PDF/A definition file may be found in gs/lib/PDFA_def.ps. You
>    will need to modify the content of this file; in particular you must alter
>    the /ICCProfile so that it points to a valid ICC profile for your
>    OutputIntent. The string '(...)' defining the ICCProfile must be a fully
>    qualified device and path specification appropriate for your Operating
>    System.
>
> There is one additional control for PDF/A output: PDFACompatibilityPolicy
> *integer* When an operation (eg pdfmark) is encountered which cannot be
> emitted in a PDF/A compliant file, this policy is consulted, there are
> currently three possible values:
>
> 0 - (default) Include the feature or operation in the output file, the
> file will not be PDF/A compliant. Because the document Catalog is emitted
> before this is encountered, the file will still contain PDF/A metadata but
> will not be compliant. A warning will be emitted in this case.
>
>  1 - The feature or operation is ignored, the resulting PDF file will be
> PDF/A compliant. A warning wil be emitted for every elided feature.
>
>  2 - Processing of the file is aborted with an error, the exact error may
> vary depending on the nature of the PDF/A incompatibility.
>
>  Here is a sample command line to invoke Ghostscript for generating a
> PDF/A document :
>
> gs -dPDFA=1 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOOUTERSAVE -dUseCIEColor
> -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out-a.pdf
> PDFA_def.ps input.ps
>
>

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