Re: Are there no newer recommendations for generating a "camera ready" pdf from plain TeX?

These instructions set certain metadata elements in a PDF, including PDF
version, etc...in fact, despite what TeX may be doing inside that file.
They do not do anything to prepare a file for PoD.

Paulo Ney

On Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 8:31 PM Suresh Govindachar via texhax <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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}
>      %
>      %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>      % 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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