Ros. Riha Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 All PDF export options produce layered PDFs, which are difficult to read by certain RIP printing machines. If it was possible to add the option to export old, non-layered PDF (PDF 1.3), it would be helpful. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 This has already been asked and answered a few times: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Note that Ghostscript (free) has command-line utilities to convert a PDF file to a PostScript file, and to convert a PostScript file to a PDF file. It looks like you can give it an option to tell it what version of PDF to write, so it might be possible to convert a file to PDF 1.3 using that. I haven't tested to see how much might be lost in the translation when using this - I don't know if this maintains spot colors for example - but it might be worth a look? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ros. Riha Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 2 hours ago, fde101 said: This has already been asked and answered a few times: unfortunately, the CTP company I work with specially warned me against the use of PDF/X-3:( ... am I supposed to try to explain to them they are wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ros. Riha Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, fde101 said: Note that Ghostscript (free) has command-line utilities to convert a PDF file to a PostScript file, and to convert a PostScript file to a PDF file. It looks like you can give it an option to tell it what version of PDF to write, so it might be possible to convert a file to PDF 1.3 using that. I haven't tested to see how much might be lost in the translation when using this - I don't know if this maintains spot colors for example - but it might be worth a look? For me, the holy grail is not to bother with any command-line utilities, to worry what might get lost in translation... I think everyone wants to get the result in one step instead of two... that is the whole point of using software, is it not? Thanks for the advice anyway... it will sorely be helpful - Ghostscript is something you can bet on indeed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 One could suggest that the publisher should catch up to a few years ago and support the newer formats, or one could request that Serif consider implementing an alternative library to support the older formats when needed, but either way the two are evidently not directly compatible right now, so I was just trying to suggest a possible workaround. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 I've logged this to be considered. In the meantime, can you use PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3 ? Neither of them will include PDF layers. Patrick Connor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ros. Riha Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 as above, I was warned against the use of any PDF/X by printing company. Once I see them, I am going to ask for reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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