On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:20:09 pm Timothy Boyden wrote: > PDF/X-1a:2001 is actually equivalent to Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3) version > files (according to the InDesign export feature anyways). > > If you use the Scribus PDF export tool I believe it defaults to X-1a or > X-3 (which is the same PDF version, but with a more definitive color > profile description) which should be acceptable to your printer. > > If you want a tool to verify it, you'll need a preflight tool like what > is included in Acrobat or another 3rd party product like FlightCheck > from Markzware. There's freeware preflight software available, but I > have not had a chance to compare those with commercial tools for > accuracy. One of the advantages of a commercial preflight tool is that > it can make adjustments that would make a PDF compliant with the X-1a or > X-3 specification. > > -Tim
Thanks for the reply. My source on such things tells me that if the string "PDF/X" does not appear in the pdf file then it won't be accepted for running on the OCE printer by LSI. No pdf files that I have looked at, Scribus, TeX, whatever, have that exact string. I can of course patch that in with an editor but I doubt that it would pass the preflight review. Does the presence/absence of graphics have an impact on how Scribus annotates the file? For some time now the Scribus site has bragged about X/3 qualification. Shouldn't some indication of that occur in the file also? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
