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• • February 1, 2017 at 4:34 am #91799
    Anonymous

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    I have a book layout in InDesign 2.0 on a Mac (OS X 10.5.8, PowerPC CPU). There is no preset in InDesign 2.0 for exporting a PDF/X-1a:2001. Is possible to do this export and if so how, preferably with the minimum of additional software/hardware?

    Adobe tells me that their current cloud version of InDesign is incompatible with my Mac.

    David Heaf

  • February 1, 2017 at 6:48 am #91801
    David Blatner

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    InDesign 2? PowerPC? Wow! That’s old school, man! :-)

    The good news is that PDF/X-1a is mostly just a preset of a bunch of regular PDF settings. If you choose “Acrobat 4” compatibility in the PDF export dialog box, you’re most of the way there.

  • February 1, 2017 at 9:42 am #91807
    Skiddy Doodah

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    If you have Acrobat Distiller you could print a .ps file to your desktop and drop onto distiller?

  • February 1, 2017 at 2:31 pm #91835
    Anonymous

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    Many thanks David and Skiddy. I will try both routes. I’d thought of the second one, which I could do by moving the .ps file to my WinXP PC (another oldie!) which has Distiller, but was put off it by this Adobe staff comment: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1810028 .

    Which is the most authoritative source for finalising the specification of PDF/X-1a:2001, once I have selected Acrobat 4 compatibility in the InDesign export PDF process?

  • February 2, 2017 at 2:39 am #91837
    Skiddy Doodah

    Member

    i understand distiller is not ideal, live transparency shouldn’t be an issue as X1a flattens files, but this would get you out of a hole, we have used Distiller in the past with good results. I believe Distiller comes with a preset for PDFX1a output. Good luck.

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