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On 12/07/10 12:10, William Adams wrote: > On Jul 10, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Chris Yocum wrote: > >> I have a feeling that this is a rather naive/dumb question but I will >> raise it nonetheles. I have been looking into creating pre-press >> quality (PDF X-1a at least) PDFs via XeLaTeX. It seems that most things >> are there: embedded fonts (pdffonts tells me that they are), hyperxmp >> for metadata, etc. The only thing missing seems to be the TrimBox and >> Bleed Boxes. Is there a way to get these into XeTeX? I can do it using >> \special but it seems like something the geometry package should do when >> knows it will produce PDFs (and should work with the crop package). > > Correct. Unfortunately, the geometry package doesn't support this. I've > always used \special Thank you very much for your insight. I am contemplating contacting the crop and geometry package owners to see if we can collaborate on adding this functionality to the packages. > >> I >> had a look at the pdfx package, which doesn't work with XeLaTeX, and it >> seems to set the Boxes statically in the code. It would seem to me that >> they should be calculated at the time of document creation or am I >> completely missing the point? > > No, again the pdfx package would need to be extended to have xelatex support. > > Perhaps support for the nifty pdf commands is the next thing which should be > ported to xetex? That would be very cool. If it were just a matter of adding macro code (I am not a complete TeXpert but I am getting there), I believe that I could help on that front. Please let me know. Thanks, Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkw7ASkACgkQTsMNflSecIZEjwCgqvczy3CczL94klUzxoPeB5Fq uEAAn36snOHwVzcI6aYC6ia2KuRWXBYB =TF3u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
