PDF Output format X/1a:2001
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?
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:06:35AM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
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
On Thursday 17 September 2009 11:25:44 Sam Mason wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:06:35AM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
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:
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.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 08:42:25AM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
On Thursday 17 September 2009 11:25:44 Sam Mason wrote:
Well I will try it and report back. I use TeX a lot but usually not pdfLaTeX.
I just linked to the head of the discussion, the fact it's on a TeX mailing list is just a coincidence. The suggested command that looked good was:
ps2pdf13 -dEmbedAllFonts -dPDFX=true in.pdf out.pdf
Ghostview (the command behind ps2pdf13) has lots of options to control it, you may need to specify some more options than the above though. It can definitely be told to generate CMYK colors as I've done this before, just never tried to go all the way through to the spec you want.
When you figure it out, sending the commands here would help anybody in the future accomplish the same!
On Friday 18 September 2009 13:00:03 Sam Mason wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 08:42:25AM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
On Thursday 17 September 2009 11:25:44 Sam Mason wrote:
June/008045.html
Well I will try it and report back. I use TeX a lot but usually not pdfLaTeX.
I just linked to the head of the discussion, the fact it's on a TeX mailing list is just a coincidence. The suggested command that
looked
good was:
ps2pdf13 -dEmbedAllFonts -dPDFX=true in.pdf out.pdf
Ghostview (the command behind ps2pdf13) has lots of options
to control
it, you may need to specify some more options than the above
though. It
can definitely be told to generate CMYK colors as I've done this
before,
just never tried to go all the way through to the spec you want.
When you figure it out, sending the commands here would help
anybody in
the future accomplish the same!
I have inquired on the Ghostscript list and that program wil not create a file in the PDF/X1-a:2001 format. The LaTeX style pdfx.sty (latest version) will but the use of this program to convert a file not created in LaTeX would be very clumsy.
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:12:38PM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
I have inquired on the Ghostscript list and that program wil not create a file in the PDF/X1-a:2001 format.
(the most useful response seems to have been in: http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2009-September/008567.html )
Based on it I'm not sure how you'd go about getting the appropriate bits of information out of an SVG file that it seems to want.
The LaTeX style pdfx.sty (latest version) will but the use of this program to convert a file not created in LaTeX would be very clumsy.
Yup that does sound a bit awkward, not sure what else to suggest though.
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