[tex-live] ICC profiles for PDF/A compliance

[Mojca Miklavec]

Dear Reinhard,

On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 20:53, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2018-09-05 at 19:11:54 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I would like to ask whether it would be acceptable to include some ICC
>  > color profiles from ghoscript (GS is GPL-licenced, so I assume those
>  > files fall under the same licence) into TeX Live which are needed for
>  > PDF/A compliance of PDF documents.
>  >
>  > The files from GhostScript which are needed are:
>  > - default_cmyk.icc
>  > - default_gray.icc
>  > - default_rgb.icc
>  > plus one more file from http://www.eci.org/en/downloads
>  >
>  > A while ago there was a discussion on this mailing list as well:
>  >     https://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2013-December/034625.html
>  >
>  > What would have to be done to make these profiles a viable inclusion
>  > for TeX Live?
>
> Hi Mojca,
> the pdfx LaTeX package already provides an ICC profile
>
>   sRGB_IEC61966-2-1_black_scaled.icc
>
> from http://color.org .  AFAICS this is sufficient to create valid
> PDF/A.

Thanks a lot for pointing this out.

It doesn't help though that this file is well hidden behind the "latex" prefix.

Mojca