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Re: Software for creating and editing PDFs

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On Fri, 2/28/2025 2:40 PM, Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 2/28/2025 9:59 AM, Tim Slattery wrote:
>> My wife makes books for Amazon's online sales. These aren't printed
>> books, they're PDFs made to Amazon's specifications. I think she
>> currently uses Word97 and "Save to PDF", but I'm not really sure. But
>> the process doesn't work well and drives her nuts. 
>>
>> Does anybody have a clue what she _should_ be using?
>>
> 
> Would that be something like this ?
> 
> https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G202145060
> 
>       Book Formatting : Format Your Paperback : Save Your Manuscript File
> 
>       Save Your Manuscript File
> 
>       Settings
> 
>        You can choose to print, export, or save as PDF depending on your editing software.
>        Whichever method you choose, make sure you enable the following PDF-specific
>        settings in addition to the file specifications above:
> 
>       PDF/X format is used. PDF/X-1a is preferred, but if you are submitting non-PDF/X
>       files (for example, PDF/A), any comments, forms, or other non-printing objects
>       could be removed during our review.
> 
>       Downsampling, or decreasing resolution, of images is disabled. [wants 300DPI]
> 
>       Remove PDF creation logos or watermarks.
> 
>       Optimize PDFs. Optimization is useful to reduce your file size, allowing for
>       higher performance when transferring, uploading, viewing, and printing the files.
> 
> https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/acrobat/using/pdf-x-pdf-a-pdf.html
> 
>    PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files (Acrobat Pro)
> 
>    Convert PDFs to PDF/X, PDF/A, or PDF/E
> 
>    You can validate PDF content against PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/VT or PDF/E criteria.
> 
>    You can also save a copy of the PDF as PDF/X, PDF/A, or PDF/E, provided it
>    complies with the specified requirements.
> 
>    For example, under certain circumstances, an ICC profile that describes the
>    destination device is required for PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, and PDF/X-4 compliance.
> 
>    If your document doesn’t have an embedded ICC output profile, you can
>    embed one before saving.  [At your peril of course :-) ]
> 
> Even though no actual printing is going on, it sounds like
> to some extent, you're dealing with "pre-press monkeys",
> just like if you went to a real book publisher and they
> did not like your PDF submission.
> 
> Illustrator could do colour separations, and is a pre-print
> ready tool. That would be overkill for what your wife wants,
> as she is not going to want to take an Illustrator course
> just to do simple stuff like this.
> 
> The real question then, is can you sling the ICC part of this.
> You'll need to find someone who knows what ICC type they
> want, to find something you can bodge in there. But it's all
> for a good purpose, because having an ICC is there to ensure
> it looks like your wife intended, when on the customer desktop.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_profile
> 
> While a lot of tools can make "any old PDF", the "pre-press monkeys"
> will make sure you have a bumpy ride.
> 
> And I'm not a fan of Adobe, and I don't put suggestions like
> this in a posting for fun. I've *removed* Adobe from my
> computers, due to "shenanigans". They're banned here.
> 
> They were an OK company, a more-than-OK company, before the
> "rental software era". Now they can just fuck right off.
> They've burned up a lot of goodwill.
> 

Here is a link, with a basic explanation of the format.

https://www.foxit.com/blog/pdfx-offers-a-family-of-pdf-standards-for-printing-and-publishing/

   Paul

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Software for creating and editing PDFs Tim Slattery <TimSlattery@utexas.edu> - 2025-02-28 09:59 -0500
  Re: Software for creating and editing PDFs Peter Johnson <peter@parksidewood.nospam> - 2025-02-28 15:26 +0000
  Re: Software for creating and editing PDFs sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-02-28 09:56 -0600
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