Le lun. 12/07/10 (12:48:58 +0100), Chris Yocum a écrit : > 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.
If you go further and have answers from these authors, please let us know. I guess this point will be of great interest in the short time, since more and more printers require PDF/X files and, on our side, we need more flexibility to provide them. Sincerely, Sébastien -- Sébastien Mengin Édition et logiciels libres < Mise en page avec LaTeX > http://edilibre.net tél. : 06 84 88 49 17 jid. : sebastien-men...@jabber.org -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
