Bug 691585

Summary: Need PDF X/1-a format output.
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: John Culleton <john>
Component: PDF WriterAssignee: Ken Sharp <ken.sharp>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: sudhakar1k
Priority: P4    
Version: 8.65   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Customer: Word Size: ---

Description John Culleton 2010-09-01 21:38:59 UTC 
Many major printers now require this format for PDF book cover files. Many authors and self publishers buy Adobe Distiller just to fulfill this requirement.
Comment 1 Ken Sharp 2010-09-02 07:52:07 UTC 
Changing to an enhancement request. 

The biggest problem is that this standard does not support RGB nor any of the CIE spaces, so RGB colours need to be converted to CMYK or gray. There is no provision for this in pdfwrite at present, normally we set -dUseCIEColor to convert the colours to CIE and then embed relevant CIE/ICC colour spaces.

The remaining features/restrictions are already in place.
Comment 2 Ken Sharp 2013-06-18 07:30:51 UTC 
*** Bug 694359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Ken Sharp 2025-01-28 11:23:48 UTC 
Fixed in commit be998e2366e8c48d72602672a6d4357b90a77a50 Please read the commit log for details.