[OS X TeX] How to make PDF/A document by LaTeX?
Matti Vallinkoski
matti.vallinkoski at mail.suomi.net
Mon Mar 2 19:18:19 CET 2009
On 2.3.2009, at 15:46, Daniel Becker wrote:
> Hallo -
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to produce a pdf/a-1b document by the recently released
>> pdfx package:
>>
>> \documentclass{book}
>> \usepackage[a-1b]{pdfx}
>> Hello!
>> \end{document}
>>
>
> My experience with this package is that it fails once your LaTeX-
> Constructs become more complicated, include images of various sorts,
> color etc. But I guess the package will be updated sometime in the
> future.
I see. This is a PhD thesis in memoir class with (colour) figures
produced in Matlab, and includes some dingbats (\rightthumbsdown and
\leftthumbsup) plus the amssymb fonts;
> You know http://support.river-valley.com/wiki/index.php?title=Generating_PDF/A_compliant_PDFs_from_pdftex
> ???
Yes. I just found it too complicated to apply.
>> ! pdfTeX error (ext5): cannot open file for embedding.
>> l.137 ...eam attr{/N 4} file{sRGBIEC1966-2.1.icm}
>>
>> ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>
> it means that the package tries to find a color profile file and you
> don't provide it. For some reason, it is not delivered with the pdfx
> package.
This was the reason to contact the Mac OS Mailing list. I was stranded.
> The website above links to a .zip file with all the necessary files,
> including a sRGBIEC1966-2.1.icm
I did no see it! It was in the text, not as a reference. Thank you for
pointing this out.
> They have it in the same folder so TeX can find it. I don't know
> whether it can/should be moved to some place in a texmf tree.
>
> I think you can include any color Profile.
>
> Another link that might be interesting for you:
> http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm (Ghostscript)
>
> ps2pdf can also use pdf as an input file ....
OK. I tried Acrobat Professional 7.
>> What does this mean? The pdfx package is included in TeXLive 2008,
>> with all supporting files? Where is the colour profile and where
>> should it be located, if found? It cannot be found in http://www.color.org/iccprofile.xalter
>> as suggested in pdfx.pdf (from CTAN)
>
> Good luck :-)
This colour profile was all that was needed. At least, the pdf looks
the same. Unfortunately, I have no valid test for PDF/A-1b...
The Acrobat 7 distiller gives OK for thesis.pdf->Acrobat->thesis.ps–
>Distiller->thesis.pdf/a-1x in about half the trials, crashes in the
other half (for the same thesis.)
I should still try ps2pdf and find some more reliable verification
tools.
Matti
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