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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Daniela Würthinger <da...@fh-hagenberg.at> on 2003/05/28 15:00:37 UTC
How to define PDF properties?
Hi,
I want to control the following PDF-properties.
- Making a Trim or a Bleedbox ?
- Defining resolution, color-system and compression ?
Can I find any help on the web?
daniela
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From: "Daniela Würthinger" <da...@fh-hagenberg.at>
To: <fo...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: PDF properties two more questions
> Hi,
> thank you for this information. It was really helpful.
> I am writing my thesis about "CrossMedia-Publishing of productcatalogs",
> during my studies I try to find out, whether FOP is a suitable tool to
> produce PDF for Prepress.
> So I try to find out whether my generated PDF (with FOP) has the right
> properties.
>
> It's difficult to write the technical terms in english.
>
> - Can FOP produce PDF including trim marks?
> - Can FOP produce PDF including prepress parameters, like for example
> "overprinting"?
>
> thank you very much for your help,
> daniela
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremias Maerki" <de...@greenmail.ch>
> To: <fo...@xml.apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 10:08 AM
> Subject: Re: PDF properties?
>
>
>
> On 19.05.2003 21:27:51 Daniela Würthinger wrote:
> > how can I find out whether a PDF generated with FOP has the following
> > properties?
>
> The first two can be checked in a good ASCII editor.
>
> > - embedded ICC-Profiles
>
> Look for "/ICCBased" to find out if an image (XObject) has a reference
> to an ICC profile.
>
> > - lossless compression
>
> If you find the string "/DCTDecode" in the PDF you have lossy image
> compression somewhere.
>
> > - comments about overprinting and filling
>
> I don't understand what exactly you need here.
>
> Do you really just want to find out where a PDF has the above properties
> or do you want to control these properties?
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Jeremias Maerki
>
>
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Re: How to define PDF properties, e.g. Crop Marks
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>.
As I said in a follow-up to Rodolfo's mail: You can use painting
instructions offered by SVG or table-cell borders. Bu there's no direct
function in FOP to simply enable crop marks.
On 30.05.2003 09:53:33 Daniela Würthinger wrote:
> Hi thank you for yours information,
> recently another fop-user told me, that it is possible to print Crop Marks
> (?Trim Marks?) with FOP?
> how can I do that?
Jeremias Maerki
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Re: How to define PDF properties, e.g. Crop Marks
Posted by "Rodolfo M. Raya" <ro...@heartsome.net>.
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 04:53, Daniela Würthinger wrote:
> Hi thank you for yours information,
> recently another fop-user told me, that it is possible to print Crop Marks
> (?Trim Marks?) with FOP?
> how can I do that?
> daniela
Hi,
Use the attached XSL-FO file as an example.
Hope this helps,
Rodolfo
Re: How to define PDF properties, e.g. Crop Marks
Posted by Daniela Würthinger <da...@fh-hagenberg.at>.
Hi thank you for yours information,
recently another fop-user told me, that it is possible to print Crop Marks
(?Trim Marks?) with FOP?
how can I do that?
daniela
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Subject: Re: PDF properties two more questions
From: "Rodolfo M. Raya" <rodolfo () heartsome ! net>
Date: 2003-05-20 17:15:51
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On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 13:27, Daniela Würthinger wrote:
> - Can FOP produce PDF including trim marks?
Yes, you can print crop marks with FOP.
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From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>
To: <fo...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: How to define PDF properties?
> Daniela Würthinger wrote:
> > I want to control the following PDF-properties.
> > Can I find any help on the web?
>
> If you want to dive into technical matters, check ou the
> specs:
> PDF
>
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs/filefmtspecs/PDFReferen
ce.pdf
> XSLFO
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/
>
> > - Making a Trim or a Bleedbox ?
>
> If you mean "communicating the values to the processing machinery",
> then no, I don't think you can put them into PDF.
>
> > - Defining resolution, color-system and compression ?
>
> PDF doesn't realy use the concept of resolution, even for
> embedded bitmaps. In XSLFO this is some sort of implementation
> defined (in the sense of mapping px units).
> PDF can use a multitude of color systems for both PDF colors
> and embedded bitmaps. The specifics are in the spec. XSLFO
> uses a subset.
> Compression is not a typographical concept. You can apply
> a variety of compression algorithms to PDF streams and embedded
> objects, the details depend on the type of the PDF object. XSLFO
> has no such concept, its entirely out of scope of the spec.
>
> J.Pietschmann
>
>
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Re: How to define PDF properties?
Posted by "J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>.
Daniela Würthinger wrote:
> I want to control the following PDF-properties.
> Can I find any help on the web?
If you want to dive into technical matters, check ou the
specs:
PDF
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs/filefmtspecs/PDFReference.pdf
XSLFO
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/
> - Making a Trim or a Bleedbox ?
If you mean "communicating the values to the processing machinery",
then no, I don't think you can put them into PDF.
> - Defining resolution, color-system and compression ?
PDF doesn't realy use the concept of resolution, even for
embedded bitmaps. In XSLFO this is some sort of implementation
defined (in the sense of mapping px units).
PDF can use a multitude of color systems for both PDF colors
and embedded bitmaps. The specifics are in the spec. XSLFO
uses a subset.
Compression is not a typographical concept. You can apply
a variety of compression algorithms to PDF streams and embedded
objects, the details depend on the type of the PDF object. XSLFO
has no such concept, its entirely out of scope of the spec.
J.Pietschmann
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