Side question. Are there plans to implement later pdf versions than 1.4? Steven
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Christoph Sch?fer <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 > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- mmm Bread. From wheat to eat. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090407/f167d7ee/attachment.htm>
