The print house requires my dissertation's PDF to be compliant with PDF/X1a:2001. The content file was compiled using XeTeX LaTeX and the second PDF is the cover design done with Inkscape 0.48.
The nearest answer I found in this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3483801/1288722, and if I rightly understood, this can be done at least to convert the PDF to PDF/X using Ghostscript.
As stated in the answer above, conversion to PDF/X requires a valid ICC profile. I contacted the printing house and they provided a file of their preferred one which is: ISOcoated_v2_300_eci.icc. I added the .icc file to same folder of the target pdf files (thanks to VadimR for this remark).
Ghostscript
I used this script from command line but it didn't work:
gswin32c -dPDFX -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOOUTERSAVE -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=outputfile.pdf PDFX_def.ps doctorate.pdf
I took some time to do 220 pages but it was awful, undesirable effect.
Contents of the PDFX_def.ps:
%!
% This is a sample prefix file for creating a PDF/X-3 document.
% Feel free to modify entries marked with "Customize".
% This assumes an ICC profile to reside in the file (ISO Coated sb.icc),
% unless the user modifies the corresponding line below.
systemdict /ProcessColorModel known {
systemdict /ProcessColorModel get dup /DeviceGray ne exch /DeviceCMYK ne and
} {
true
} ifelse
{ (ERROR: ProcessColorModel must be /DeviceGray or DeviceCMYK.)=
/ProcessColorModel cvx /rangecheck signalerror
} if
% Define entries to the document Info dictionary :
/ICCProfile (ISOcoated_v2_300_eci.icc) def % Customize or remove.
%/ICCProfile (ISO Coated sb.icc) def % Customize or remove.
[ /GTS_PDFXVersion (PDF/X-3:2002) % Must be so (the standard requires).
/Title (Title) % Customize.
/Trapped /False % Must be so (Ghostscript doesn't provide other).
/DOCINFO pdfmark
% Define an ICC profile :
currentdict /ICCProfile known {
[/_objdef {icc_PDFX} /type /stream /OBJ pdfmark
[{icc_PDFX} <</N systemdict /ProcessColorModel get /DeviceGray eq {1} {4} ifelse >> /PUT pdfmark
[{icc_PDFX} ICCProfile (r) file /PUT pdfmark
} if
% Define the output intent dictionary :
[/_objdef {OutputIntent_PDFX} /type /dict /OBJ pdfmark
[{OutputIntent_PDFX} <<
/Type /OutputIntent % Must be so (the standard requires).
/S /GTS_PDFX % Must be so (the standard requires).
/OutputCondition (Commercial and specialty printing) % Customize
/Info (none) % Customize
/OutputConditionIdentifier (CGATS TR001) % Customize
/RegistryName (http://www.color.org) % Must be so (the standard requires).
currentdict /ICCProfile known {
/DestOutputProfile {icc_PDFX} % Must be so (see above).
} if
>> /PUT pdfmark
[{Catalog} <</OutputIntents [ {OutputIntent_PDFX} ]>> /PUT pdfmark
So what am I missing?
Notes
- Windows 7 32bit
- No commercial programs are desired
