[scribus] [Scribus] pdf standards

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:41:35 pm Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> Am Freitag, 29. Februar 2008 01:41:42 schrieb John Culleton:
> > One of my printers (LSI) demands pdf files built to the
> > PDF/X-1a:2001 standard in order to use their new OCE presses with
> > a higher screen setting. As near as I can determine this is
> > equivalent to the product of Adobe 6 or the PDF-1.5 standard. Can
> > anyone confirm this? Is there a way to check for compliance with
> > X-1a without buying the full Adobe Acrobat?
>
> PDF/X-1a is more or less the same as PDF 1.3 (this is explained in
> the docs). A PDF 1.3 file shouldn't result in any errors.
>
> Christoph
>
However LSI looks for PDF/X-1a and will rasterize the file if they 
don't see that tag.  So if they are that similar it should not be 
that difficult to add X-1a as an option for pdf output. I don't make 
LSI's rules, I am just trying to meet them. 

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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