Re: [Inkscape-user] PDF Output format X/1a:2001

On Thursday 17 September 2009 11:25:44 Sam Mason wrote:

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:06:35AM -0400, John Culleton wrote:

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Using Inkscape 47 the only pdf output format is PDF 1.4. If I

want to

...

create a cover pdf for the POD printer LSI I need to have PDF X/1a:2001 per LSI specs.

Is there any prospect for adding this PDF format to Inkscape?

Sounds like an awfully complicated way of going about it. Why

not just

convert the PDF that Inkscape produces into whatever strange

version

LSI seems to require. Maybe something along the lines

suggested by the

following quick google:

http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2009-June/008045.html

Well I will try it and report back. I use TeX a lot but usually not pdfLaTeX.

Another Google suggests that several magazines also require X1a:2001. Illustrator has it and so on.