On Saturday 19 September 2009 02:49:41 you wrote: work, you be I could not find the icc profile FOGRAL39.icc so I edited pdfx.sty to use FOGRA39.icc which I found. With that change the compile ran to completion. However the output file was very large, 491328 bytes for a one word test file. In all likelihood the use of the icc profile caused this. There was one non-significant warning message: Package hyperref Warning: draft mode on. Here is my final test file ----------------------- \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage[x-1a]{pdfx} \begin{document} Foo \end{document} ------------------------------- If you need anything else please let me know. Thanks again for your work. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html