Copying the entire Catalog is NOT a good idea - there could be a variety of 
things in there that wouldn't copy well (or would bloat the final document for 
no good reason).  The best example would be copying the structure tree of a 
document during a split, where not all final pages are there...

The PDF/X standards say that you need EITHER a Bleed OR Trim - so you have to 
handle both possible cases.

Leonard

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Freitag [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:34 AM
To: Leonard Rosenthol
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [poppler] pdfseparate PDF/X conform

Hi Leonard!

Thanks for the hints!

Am 02.02.2012 07:39, schrieb Leonard Rosenthol:
> Offhand:
>
> - You copy the Info dict, but not XMP
That's not true: XMP is part of the catalog dict, and that's now completely 
copied!
> - You copy TrimBox, but not BleedBox.
Okay, I saw that in the documentation, but because Acrobat hadn't claimed that 
when checking compatibiliy I didn't care.
> - You took OUT the OCG copier, which means X-4 and X-5 aren't 
> supported
Same as the first point: instead of copying ONLY the optional content, I copy 
now the COMPLETE catalog dict  (and referenced objects, with changes to the 
pages of course!)
>
> As I said, there are 8 different flavors of PDF/X.  Are you only testing
> this with X-1a:1999?   What about all the others??
I tested up to PDF/X-3:2003

Thomas
>
> Leonard
>
>
> On 2/1/12 9:25 PM, "Anita Brüssow   (Kabel)"<[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Can You also give a hint instead of just say it will not work? 
>> Acrobat checking the result tells that everything is okay.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Leonard Rosenthol"<[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:24 PM
>> To: "Thomas Freitag"<[email protected]>;
>> <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [poppler] pdfseparate PDF/X conform
>>
>>> Be aware this patch is incomplete!  It won't work for most PDF/X 
>>> files - for any flavor of PDF/X (remembering, that there are 8 of them!).
>>>
>>> Leonard
>>>
>>> On 2/1/12 6:32 PM, "Thomas Freitag"<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I was surprised that some guys are really using my small tools 
>>>> pdfseparate and pdfunite. So here a small patch which is hopefully 
>>>> also useful for them:
>>>>
>>>> patch for psdseparate:
>>>> Produce  PDF/X conform pdf pages if the originally PDF was PDF/X 
>>>> conform.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Thomas
>>>>
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