General ⇒ pdfx | Prepare PDF/A and PDF/X Documents

[ellocco]

Hallo,
the package pdfx helps you to produce PDF/A and PDF/X files. But I had severe problems to use this package, attached you find my experience with the package. One general information: pdfx.sty-version "2008/12/10 v1.2" is flawed.
Don't use variable "\Subject" with this version.
The erroneous line is:

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\let\xmpSubject\xmpKeywords

I changed it to:

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\def\Subject#1{\gdef\xmpKeywords{#1}}
 \let\xmpSubject\@empty

I hope that it is a correct patch.


Regards,
ellocco

[localghost]

And you certainly reported this to the package maintainers. It is very unlikely that they will read this topic here.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[ellocco]

Yes, I send them an e-mail, but they don't care. The package was written in a lousy manner, this is at least the opinion of "Heiko Oberdiek" (cf. 17-Sep-2011, Newsgroup de.comp.text.tex).

If you use the option "x-1a" the package changes the paper definition to "letter", without a check for the paper size that you specify in the latex code, here the section that changes the values to fixed "letter-size" values:

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\pdfpageattr{/MediaBox[0 0 595 793]
             /BleedBox[0 0 595 793]
             /TrimBox[25 20 570 773]}

Here my workaround for people that want to print on A4 with the option "x-1a", rather than on "letter"-paper:

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\usepackage[x-1a]{pdfx}
\makeatletter
\pdfpageattr{/MediaBox[0 0 595.276 841.89]
             /BleedBox[0 0 595.276 841.89]
             /TrimBox[25 20 570 820]
}
\makeatother

As far as I understand, this not the best way to do it, but it seems to work.

El Locco