Hi Tilman/Olaf, Thanks for the information. Have a great weekend! ~h
________________________________ From: Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2017 1:31:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PDF/X-1a? Am 21.01.2017 um 08:40 schrieb Harry Yoon: > Hi Tilman, Thanks for the answer. > > > My knowledge of PDF is rather limited (I've been researching only for the > last few days), but yes, I understand that I have to create a > standards-compliant doc using the APIs. It seems that the requirements for > PDF/X-1a are generally easy to satisfy, maybe except for CMYK colors. I am > not sure why it is harder than other requirements, but I hear that > ghostscript tool ps2pdf, for instance, cannot currently convert a ps/pdf to a > fully compliant PDF/X-1a pdf because of this CMYK requirement. I presume that > PDFBox does not have such limitations? > > > Just to follow up, can PDFBox be used to convert an existing pdf to PDF/X-1a > conformant pdf (in addition to generating a PDF/X-1a conformant pdf from > scratch)? If so, is there a facility in PDFBox to make this task easier? Or, > is it just a manual process going through the original pdf (after parsing) > and re-generating output pdf (enforcing the requirements)? See the answer by Olaf Drümmer... I see that in my own answer I sometimes wrote "A" where I meant "X" which made it even more confusing, but the link is correct, it does also explain a little bit about PDF/X. For a tool, see here https://www.callassoftware.com/files/attachments/.2562/callas_pdfToolBox8_LR_EN.pdf Tilman > > > Thanks, > > ~Harry > > > ________________________________ > From: Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2017 7:06:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PDF/X-1a? > > Am 21.01.2017 um 07:38 schrieb Tilman Hausherr: >> Am 21.01.2017 um 00:11 schrieb Harry Yoon: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> I'm new to PDFBox. I'm currently trying to figure out how to generate >>> PDF/X-1a conformant PDF using PDFBox. I found some references related >>> to PDF/A validation using PDFBox, but none pertinent to PDF/X. >>> >>> >>> Is it possible to use PDFBox to generate PDF/X-1a compliant PDF docs? >>> Or, at least to validate PDF files against PDF/X-1a standards? >> Yes it is possible to use PDFBox to generate PDF/A-1a compliant docs. >> Just read the standard ( this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/X >> gives a preview) and respect the requirements. No, PDFBox doesn't have >> a validator for that. > To clarify this - > PDFBox is rather low level, i.e. you have to know a bit about PDF > itself. There isn't switch in PDFBox that sets PDF/A-1a compatibility. > To see what I mean, have a look at the CreatePDFA.java example. This > isn't what you need, but it shows what extra work is to be done for that > standard, e.g. output intents and XMP. > > More on PDF/A here > https://www.pdfa.org/pdfa-faq/ > > Tilman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
