[scribus] [Scribus] pdf standards

[Craig Bradney]

On Monday 18 August 2008 16:29:29 Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2008/8/18 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>
>
> > 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.
>
> Can a developer tell us just how difficult it would be (or how long to
> code) to offer those variants of PDF that are often asked by printers in
> some areas of the world? Is there something that prevents this, code wise?
> or is it just a plain choice to offer PDF/X-3 only?

We would need to analyse the differences between the versions to know what to 
change. Honestly, its just low on priority, and depending on the changes 
required, will never go into 1.3.3.x anyway.

Craig