John Culleton wrote:
The needed files and the documentation for pdfx.sty are located here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfx/
The files in the package include:
README glyphtounicode-cmr.tex manifest.txt pdfa-1b.xmp pdfx-1a.xmp pdfx.pdf pdfx.sty small2e.pdf small2e.tex small2e.xmpdata
hm, so you want me to reverse engineer latex code ... (which
On Friday 30 October 2009 14:24:10 Hans Hagen wrote: probably
costs me more time than figuring it out from specs)
anyhow, from the filename i conclude that
- it has to do with unicode maps (is already supported) - xmp data (this big xml blob in pdf files)
xmp is not yet supported but is probably as trivial (as it is useless); i'll look it up in the spec
Hans
The major thing about pdf x/1-a:2001 is that it limits what you can do, for example no RGB, no transparencies as such, no layers and file must be flattened. Fonts must be embedded but that is required in any case. The documentation for pdfx goes through the source section by section and discusses what each does. HTH -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html