RE: PDF/X?

It has always annoyed me that the ISO standards weere not free - so I have to agree with fredo ;)

Wouldn't PDF/X require setting of printing conditions and calibration information on RGB images? I have no idea how those would be applied...

/Henning

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alfred Reibenschuh
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 1:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [perl-text-pdf-modules] PDF/X?



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ybosso73 wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I installed PDF-API2-0.65 on a SuSE-Linux box with Perl 5.8.6.
> 
> I need to generate PDF/X-1a oder PDF/X-3 files. To start with, I
> opened an existing PDF/X-1a file and imported pages to a newly
> generated PDF, like this:
[SNIP]
> However, it seems that some needed PDF/X-information from the
> source-file is not thus accessible, as the generated file ($ziel) is
> not PDF/X of any kind.

pdfapi2 is a module to (primarily) create and (secondarly) modify PDF
documents.

as of yet pdfapi2 tries to adhere to the 1.4 spec and certain
variations given particular interpretations of older or newer
published specifications.

pdfapi2 does not implement specification restrictions and hence
is not able to restrict its output to the required PDF/X compatible
subset and requirements.

since PDF/X is a iso standard, its specification is not available
for free and hence why should free software implement a non-free
specification?

what you need is a conformance converter rater than an api.

C

fredo