Are there no newer recommendations for generating a "camera ready" pdf from plain TeX?
Suresh Govindachar via texhax <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:30:39 -0800
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The following are some over twenty year old instructions for creating a
pdf from plain TeX for print on demand systems. These instructions do
seem to work with pdfTeX (but not luaTeX).
Are there no newer recommendations for generating a "camera ready" pdf
from plain TeX?
%
\edef\pdfdate{%
\the\year
\ifnum \month < 10 0\the\month \else \the\month \fi
\ifnum \day < 10 0\the\day \else \the\day \fi}
%
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% Configuring pdfTeX
%--------------------------------------------------
%
\pdfpagewidth=8truein
\pdfpageheight=10truein
%
\pdfinfo{
/Title (The Title and Subtitle)
/Author (Author Lastname)
/Subject (Subject)
/Keywords (some key words)
%not needed: /ModDate (D:\pdfdate)
%not needed: /Trapped/False
/GTS_PDFXVersion (PDF/X-1a:2003)
}
\pdfpageattr{/MediaBox [0 0 576 720]
/TrimBox [0 0 576 720]}
%%not needed: %/CropBox [] /BleedBox [] %%% not necessary to set
%%not needed: \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=3 % depends on pdftex
version
\pdfcatalog{
/OutputIntents [ <<
/Info (U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2)
/Type /OutputIntent
/S /GTS_PDFX
/OutputCondition (U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2)
/OutputConditionIdentifier (CGATS TR 001)
/RegistryName (http://www.color.org/)
>> ]
}
%
%pdftex.cfg: page_height 10 true in
%pdftex.cfg: %pdf_minorversion 4
%pdftex.cfg: %pk_resolution 600
%
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