Philip Taylor wrote: > I am completely confused in that I am no longer seeing the XML metadata in > the PDF file even having (a) commented those two lines out, and then (b) > replaced the entire LaTeX source with a clean copy taken from the web. > Probably too tired to think straight :-( OK, I was (and am) too tired to think straight, but now I understand what is going on. The XML metadata are /added by Adobe Acrobat/, when I use File / Reduce file size / For Acrobat 4 in order to bring the PDF version down to 1.3. Which means (I am delighted to be able to report) that the following does indeed achieve what was/is intended :
% !TeX Program = XeTeX % !TeX Root = For-JK.tex % !TeX Project = An Oral History of Horsmonden \newif \ifpdfxa \pdfxatrue \ifpdfxa \special {pdf: put @thispage << /ArtBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>} \special {pdf: put @thispage << /BleedBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>} \special {pdf: put @thispage << /CropBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>} \special {pdf: put @thispage << /MediaBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>} \special {pdf: put @thispage << /TrimBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>} \special {pdf: docinfo << /GTS_PDFXVersion (PDF/X-1:2001) /GTS_PDFXConformance (PDF/X-1a:2001) >>} \special {pdf: put @catalog << /PageMode /UseNone /OutputIntents [ << /Info (none) /Type /OutputIntent /S /GTS_PDFX /OutputConditionIdentifier (Custom) /RegistryName (http://www.color.org/) >> ] >>} \special {pdf: dest (page.1) [@thispage /XYZ @xpos @ypos null]} \special {pdf: put @thispage << /ArtBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>} \special {pdf: put @thispage << /BleedBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>} \special {pdf: put @thispage << /CropBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>} \special {pdf: put @thispage << /MediaBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>} \special {pdf: put @thispage << /TrimBox [0 0 498.89641 708.65968] >>} \special {pdf: docinfo << /Title(DocTitle)/Subject()/Creator(XeTeX)/ModDate(D:20160710164300)/Author(Philip Taylor)/Producer(XeTeX 0.99996)/Keywords(PDF specials)/Trapped/False >>} \fi \leavevmode \end My sincere thanks to Jonathan, for his suggestion which inspired my solution, and to Apostolos, Zdeněk and others who have tried to help. ** Phil. -- Philip Taylor
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