On 3/29/2015 1:26 PM, Philip Taylor wrote:
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
Professional Acrobat contains Prepress Tools that can verify PDF and fix
quite a lot of problems. It costs money but a damaged book may cost even
more. And there is also a PitStop plugin that may be useful. Many print
houses have it and complain if the supplied PDF does not conform to PDF/X.
Yes, well ... I do have a licenced copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro, and it tells me
that the PDF output from XeTeX is seriously PDF/X deficient ...
I suppose I should worry about this--or actually, since I'm interested in
producing archival PDFs of linguistic documents, I should worry about PDF/A.
The wikipedia article about PDF/A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A) has a
section about "establishing conformance," but there are no links to such tools.
There is a list here:
http://www.pdfa.org/2011/08/validating-pdfa/
But those appear to all be commercial tools (although the one at
http://www.intarsys.de/en/prod/pdfa-live may be good enough for our needs). And
a rather old GitHub project to do validation here:
https://github.com/gbm-bailleul/padaf
A rather long discussion here (despite its having been declared out-of-scope!):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/569129/how-can-i-test-a-pdf-document-if-it-is-pdf-a-compliant
It would be nice if xdvipdfmx had a switch to produce PDF/A (and maybe PDF/X)
conformant documents. I don't know how easy that would be; there seem to be a
lot of considerations.
--
Mike Maxwell
maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu
"My definition of an interesting universe is
one that has the capacity to study itself."
--Stephen Eastmond
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