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I would love to see additional PDF standards offered as output options. Some clients (Ingram Lightning Source and Ingram Spark, to be precise) only support older specs, which means I have to pass files through Acrobat. I'd vastly prefer to generate print files right the first time and avoid over-massaging the data.

The only PDF standards currently supported by those two firms are PDF/X-1a:2001 and PDF/X-3:2002, but there are probably other people with their own needs. Why not support a whole slew and let the user choose?

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You mean, how do I convert it to make it compliant with Ingram specs?

You need to use the Print Production tools in Acrobat Pro, which allow you to use check compliance with various PDF standards, and make a file compliant.
When I make a PDF in Publisher and then use Acrobat Pro, there are usually only one or two very minor changes needed. In most cases all it seems to do is change the declaration of the standard in the PDF header, with no actual changes to the content of the PDF at all. 


 

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I have submitted PDFs using that standard in the past, and some were accepted, others not. LSI evaluations are not uniform.
For the ones that weren't accepted, I converted them as above in Acrobat Pro, and resubmitted. They were accepted that time.

LSI and Spark have removed almost all of their human assistance from production, leaving everything up to their automated print system. Which is not the brightest system I've ever dealt with.

If they refuse it, I would be happy to fix the PDF for you (yes, free of charge, and I won't even keep a copy).

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I would also like to save to the PDF/A formats for archiving standards from Publisher as I have created templates for transcriptions etc for compiling family histories in genealogy.... and plan, in the future to produce some books as well.

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@elipsett2 I have a question for you regarding Ingram Spark if you're ok with answering it here. I want one blank page between the book cover and the inside title page. Are you able to tell me which one of these will yield those results? I'm trying to figure out which of these will translate into one blank page, with the title page on the right, in the final printing. Lemme know if that makes sense...

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You want the last one, where each page in Publisher is the size and shape of one page (one side of the piece of paper) in the final book. 
Every book begins with a right page in English, so if you want a blank page first, then your first page in Publisher will be blank.

The second page (the other side of the paper that the first page is printed on) is usually also blank, so make it blank in Publisher.

The third page (the front side of the second sheet of paper in the book) then has your title on it. 

That sound reasonable?

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13 hours ago, elipsett2 said:

You want the last one, where each page in Publisher is the size and shape of one page (one side of the piece of paper) in the final book. 
Every book begins with a right page in English, so if you want a blank page first, then your first page in Publisher will be blank.

The second page (the other side of the paper that the first page is printed on) is usually also blank, so make it blank in Publisher.

The third page (the front side of the second sheet of paper in the book) then has your title on it. 

That sound reasonable?

Yes that’s what I suspected and it makes perfect sense. Thanks!

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