PDF/A and PDF/X are standards that are specialized versions of the PDF document format for specific usage, specifically long-term archival and graphic art printing.
The PDF/X standard ensures that graphic art files will be reproduced on press exactly as the files’ creator intended them to be, regardless of the platforms, operating systems, color spaces, font systems, file formats and medias.
The PDF/A standard provides “a mechanism for representing electronic documents in a manner that preserves their visual appearance over time, regardless of the tools and systems used for creating, storing or rending the files” (From ISO 19005-1).
Both these standards will become available in PlanetPress Suite Version 7.
In the Jobs Options tab in the PlanetPress Image Output plugin and the Digital Action Action plugin, the Job Options drop-down allows the creation of PDFs using either PDF/X or PDF/A standards.
This option is be available for PDF file outputs.
The following standards are supported:
Other notes: