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PDF/X-4:2008 in Adobe CS5.5+??
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12:04 pm
December 6, 2012


Ruwen Bornheimer

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Hi everyone,

 

I'm part of a german medium-sized company and we're about to bring in PDF/X-4 as our new standard in prepress. But our digital-print section is just able to process PDF v. 1.3 / 1.4 (Acrobat 4 / 5) flawlessly. So – my problem is, that in our Adobe Suite (we got some Macs with CS 5.5 and some allready upgraded to CS 6) there's just the PDF/X-4:2010 standard available as the last export function, which means that a PDF v. 1.6 (Acrobat 7) will be created, what implements potential sources of error in our print-section. We use to export directly out of InDesign. Is there a way to add the "old" PDF/X-4:2008 standard in InDesign CS 5.5 / CS 6, by any chance? Then we'd be able to create a PDF v 1.4 instead, but with the advantages of the X4-standard – instead of to writing a PDF/X-1a to gain a lower PDF-version than 1.6. :confused:

Thanks for prospective comments, I hope you're able to help me.

Greetings,
HoPP

3:03 pm
December 8, 2012


Olaf Drümmer

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Hi Ruwen,

 

PDF/X-4:2008 and PDF/X-4:2010 differ from each other only in very minor ways. They do not differ regarding the  PDF version – it is PDF 1.6 in both cases.

 

The fact that Adobe in earlier versions of InDesign allowed you to save a PDF/X-4 files as PDF 1.4 [and only as PDF 1.4] had the main reason, that a few years back InDesign could not yet write out layers in conformance with PDF/X-4 rules. As layers were introduced in PDF 1.5, and as it is always OK to base export to PDF/X on an earlier PDF version, they decided to resolve the lack of support for layers in an exported PDF/X-4 file by restraining PDF to version 1.4 when exporting to PDF/X-4.

 

Nevertheless unless you do export layers [or wanted to export images using JPEG2000 compression, or embed OpenType fonts as penType fonts...], the result is technically speaking the same ib both cases.

 

Now you mention that your digital print department insists on getting PDF 1.3 / PDF 1.4 – is this for really technical reasons (PDF will not at all process in the workflow) or for "cultural" reasons?

 

Olaf
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