On Friday 01 October 2004 10:41, Grzegorz Staniak wrote: > Peter Linnell [mrdocs at gmail.com] pisze: > > > My printer wants my pdf in x1A format. He had problems with the png > > > graphic in my usual pdf file having a black background (which it > > > didn't). It looked fine when I previewed it in my Acrobat 5.0 viewer. > > > > PDF/x1A is a bit different and not yet supported in Scribus. Note, the > > PDF/X-3 is the latest and best at color mangement, if properly setup. > > > > Only the latest RIPs can handle PDF/X-3 and imo, where the Europeans are > > more advanced (in general) than the North American printing industry.. > > See: http://fogra.org and http://eci.org for press profiles and info. > > BTW, pardon a layman's question, but how does the "trim box" in PDF/X-3 > work? I mean, I can set the width of the "trim box" in "PDF/x-3" tab when > exporting PDF, but when I view the PDF with the Acrobat Reader 5.0 it looks > just like any other PDF.
You won't see any of the defined boxes in a PDF in viewers, except with special pre-press Acrobat plug-ins which run in the full version of Acrobat. > I understand the trim box should allow me to use > bleeds (how? do I simply move objects in Scribus past the > margins?) and then specify in the PDF format that this-much should be > trimmed at the edges, but I cannot see the effect in AR 5.0. > > Thanks for your time, This does not enable bleeds, but is used with imposition tools like preps or dots pilot. Hope that clarifies, Peter
