Philip Taylor wrote:
> I am completely confused in that I am no longer seeing the XML metadata in
> the PDF file even having (a) commented those two lines out, and then (b)
> replaced the entire LaTeX source with a clean copy taken from the web.
> Probably too tired to think straight :-(
OK, I was (and am) too tired to think straight, but now I understand what is
going on. The XML metadata are /added by Adobe Acrobat/, when I use File /
Reduce file size / For Acrobat 4 in order to bring the PDF version down to 1.3.
Which means (I am delighted to be able to report) that the following does
indeed achieve what was/is intended :
% !TeX Program = XeTeX
% !TeX Root = For-JK.tex
% !TeX Project = An Oral History of Horsmonden
\newif \ifpdfxa
\pdfxatrue
\ifpdfxa
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /ArtBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>}
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /BleedBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>}
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /CropBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>}
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /MediaBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>}
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /TrimBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>}
\special {pdf: docinfo << /GTS_PDFXVersion (PDF/X-1:2001)
/GTS_PDFXConformance (PDF/X-1a:2001) >>}
\special {pdf: put @catalog << /PageMode /UseNone /OutputIntents [ << /Info
(none) /Type /OutputIntent /S /GTS_PDFX /OutputConditionIdentifier (Custom)
/RegistryName (http://www.color.org/) >> ] >>}
\special {pdf: dest (page.1) [@thispage /XYZ @xpos @ypos null]}
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /ArtBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>}
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /BleedBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>}
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /CropBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>}
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /MediaBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>}
\special {pdf: put @thispage << /TrimBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>}
\special {pdf: docinfo <<
/Title(DocTitle)/Subject()/Creator(XeTeX)/ModDate(D:20160710164300)/Author(Philip
Taylor)/Producer(XeTeX 0.99996)/Keywords(PDF specials)/Trapped/False >>}
\fi
\leavevmode
\end
My sincere thanks to Jonathan, for his suggestion which inspired my solution,
and to Apostolos, Zdeněk and others who have tried to help.
** Phil.
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Philip Taylor
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