[OS X TeX] trim pdf figures
Adam Maxwell
amaxwell at mac.com
Tue Jun 22 20:50:33 EDT 2004
On 22 Jun, 2004, at 15:48, Maarten Sneep wrote:
> On 22 jun 2004, at 21:27, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:30:55AM -0400, Marcelo LaFleur wrote:
>>> I use Apple's Preview. You can select a box around the graphic and
>>> just
>>> crop the page.
>>
>> How safe is this for prepress purposes?
>>
>> I am asking, because last week I ran into an obscure problem with an
>> OS X-generated pdf (producer `Mac OS X 10.3.x Quartz PDFContext',
>> which is what you get by this procedure), and there have been
>> discussions on the web about how suitable OS X native pdf support is
>> for prepress.
>
> It _should_ be PDF/X compliant. Have you submitted the faulty file to
> Apple for closer inspection?
From William Adams, 10 March 2004; this link has some info on the
prepress question: <http://www.pdfzone.com/news/705-PDFzone_news.html>.
It may not be PDF/X compliant without some additional work.
PStill (non-free) will convert RGB images to CMYK and use PDF/X, if
that is what the printer desires, but I think you can also do this with
ColorSync.
--
Adam
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