On Friday 12 June 2009 09:58:32 am Louis Desjardins wrote: > 2009/6/6 Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> > > > Am Samstag, 6. Juni 2009 20:35:36 schrieb John Culleton: > > > I find this statement on the Scribus site: > > > ----------------------------------------- > > > PDF marked as any of the following: PDF/X-1:2001, X-1a:2001 > > > and 2003; X-2:2003; X-3:2002 and 2003 are all different > > > flavors of PDF-X, which is a way of creating a PDF with > > > certain criteria for pre-press. Scribus supports the latest > > > PDF-X-2:2003. Support for other versions of PDF/X is planned. > > > ----------------------------------------- > > > 1. For what release can we expect "Support for other > > > versions is planned" > > > > It's a Summer of Code project, so I guess when GSoC is > > finished. > > > > > 2. Will one of those versions be PDF/X-1a:2001 ? > > For this to be really useful though we would need a *transparency > flattener* so we could in fact produce PDF/X-xxx for just any job > created with Scribus. Other than that, it?s a half-way solution > and won?t be that useful. > > Louis >
Very true. Both layers and transparencies need to be flattened. Today I output files in e.g., PDF 1.4, view the file in Acrobat Reader, print the file to a file (yielding a flattened ps file) and then run ps2pdf13 to put it back into pdf format. I then have a "safe" file but it still doesn't have the magic PDF/X-1A:2001 tag. There is only one printer I know who insists on that format but that printer is the big Kahuna for POD books in the USA. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
