Re: [gentoo-user] Tool to check PDF against PDF/X-3 ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 05/05/2011 11:01 PM, Florian Philipp wrote:
> I'm not aware of any real verification tool. I guess you could easily
> build one using one of the free pdf libraries for introspecting the file
> and matching all requirements.

If you ever find yourself making such a tool please make it free
software and send me a link.


> A quick and dirty check would be to look for the identification string.
> Every PDF/X has to specify its conformance using a plaintext string. I
> can't provide you with an PDF/X example but this is how it looks for
> PDF/A1 created by OOo:
> `strings <pdf> | grep PDFA
> <</Type/OutputIntent/S/GTS_PDFA1/OutputConditionIdentifier(sRGB
> IEC61966-2.1)/DestOutputProfile 76 0 R>>

Thanks.

Best,



Sebastian