[scribus] prepress check

[henry atting]

Zitat - henry atting * Mi Sep 24 2008 um 11:01 -

> Zitat - peter linnell * Di Sep 23 2008 um 18:24 -
>
>> On Tuesday 23 September 2008 13:45:59 Gregory Pittman wrote:
>>> henry atting wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > on http://pdfx.info I find some tools for pdf/x checking -- for
>>> > windows and OS/X. What tools/utilities exist under Linux?
>>>
>>> Peter Linnell may be the best one to answer this, but Scribus tries to
>>> generate PDFs that should be compliant.
>>> Some of the issues that seem to come up relate to the particular
>>> software that some printers use, or their own workflow which may be
>>> restrictive.
>>>
>>> There was just a discussion on the list about PDF/X-1a:
>>>
>>> http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/2008-September/031074.html
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>
>> There is only one tool on Linux and it is an expensive server based tool. 
>>
>> The other option is to run Acrobat Pro under Wine. Acrobat Reader will not use 
>> those plug ins mentioned in the link.
>>
>> That said, if you output PDF/X-3 from Scribus, I've never seen it fail in my 
>> testing with these tools.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Peter
>
> Mmh, I created a PDF/X-3 (a single picture with no text) and made a
> check with Acrobat Pro. I got an error message, someting like:
>
>     This PDF/X-3 contains an Trimbox and an Artbox, but a conforming
>     PDF/X-3 must contain only one of them but not both
>
> henry

I got help in #scribus on freenode. It was a scribus bug and is fixed
now (revision 12592)

henry