PDF/X-1a Error - Suggestions?
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- blueyes
I keep getting a Bounding Box Violation when I try to generate a PDF/X-1a from a Postscript file (granted this Postscript file is being generated from an InDesign file I did not create - lucky me). Any suggestions to fix this? Here's the error log:
<PDFX ISO="15930-1:2001" COMPLIANT="false">
PDF/X Compliance Report
1. Bounding Boxes
[Violation] The BleedBox offsets provided are not valid: [21.000000 669.000000 804.000000 21.000000]
Violations: The total found in this section was 1.
2. Summary
Warnings: The total found in this document was 0.
Violations: The total found in this document was 1.This document does not pass PDF/X-1a:2001 compliance checks.
</PDFX>
%%[ Warning: Did not pass PDF/X compliance tests.. No PDF file produced. ] %%
- MrOneHundred0
OK, so presuming you are distilling this, try going into the Advanced (or the like) section and see if you can add about 50mm bleed all around. My experience (now a few years old) is that crop marks and page information included in the bleed area can sometimes cause these types of errors.
Sorry, it’s not much, but hey, neither am I. ;-)
- blueyes0
Nope, still didn't go through, any other thoughts? :(
- MrOneHundred0
Also, I just remembered, make sure you have fonts like Helvetica dfont, Courier, Symbol, etc loaded. If the PS file is calling for a font which may have been used in the Page Information and it’s not present in your system, Didtiller can pretty much just spew out the first error it can find.
- MrOneHundred0
Or open the file in Illustrator and give it the once-over – check for items way off on the pasteboard, empty text boxes – that kind of thing. You can then make the PDF right from Illy.
- jedipunk0
maybe try and distill the .ps with a different type of high end pdf setting and use acrobat (preflight) to convert the pdf to be PDF/X-1a compliant. A long shot but maybe worth a try.
- blueyes0
It's an InDesign file and there are no empty text boxes, etc. I'm exporting a PostScript file from InDesign and Distilling it to get a PDF/X-1a (this has to be submitted to a magazine)
- MrOneHundred0
You can export to PDF straight out of InDesign using the PDF/X-1a preset. Is there a reason you are making the PS file?
- I should say “what is the reason you are making a PS?”MrOneHundred
- YES! you can.akrokdesign
- Gucci0
via http://forum.planetpdf.com/wb/de…
"Make sure you generate the PDFs with bleed.
Setting the bleed to 0 results in the error you are encountering (there is a rounding error in InDesign that results in a slightly smaller BleedBox than TrimBox)."I read on another forum that spitting out a PDF direct from Indesign helps - and lastly - that making it an earlier version of acrobat might help.
hope that sorts you out.
- MrOneHundred0
...and so another help request sails off page one with not so much as a “thanks guys” or a “your info sucked arse, but I appreciate your input”.
If you are going to join QBN like it’s a help desk, at least take the time to let us know how it worked out, lest next time you ask for help you might be greeted with such responses as “Read the fucking manual”, “Ask your IT department”, “Fouty?”, or Fuck you, Candy”.
- I understand you are probably under pressure/deadline, but seriously, ffs.MrOneHundred
- blueyes0
MrOneHundred, who said this was resolved, and that this company has an IT department? And what makes you think I didn't read up on this _before_ posting on QBN (because I did)?
- Haydesign0
Using any transparent/multiply/screen boxes?
- blueyes0
Nope, no transparent/multiply/screen boxes. I double checked the link from Gucci, and I suspect that the problem is with the TrimBox setting as well, but I haven't found the number in the setting that will get this to run.
- ********-1
This is a VERY old thread, but the link still comes up at the top of search engines for PDF/X-1a issues, so I am going to post a fix that I FINALLY found after years of searching thanks to some help on another thread (Superuser).
18 October 2016
I have been a graphic designer for almost 16 years and I have come across my fair share of PDF/X-1a bleedbox and trimbox errors when I can find no logical reason for them. This is the FIRST true fix I have found after years of searching! My steps were slightly different than Kurt's, so I will share:
In your program, set up print settings for high resolution (in InDesign, this is on the "Advanced" print tab) and for PDF printer preferences, uncheck "rely on system fonts", select the PDF page size, and select "Press Quality."
In Acrobat Pro, open the "Press Quality" PDF you just created, then open the preflight tool. (In Acrobat Pro XI (CS5), this is under Advanced > Print Production > Preflight.) Click and expand the PDF/X compliance tab. Choose Convert to PDF/X-1a (SWOP) unless you know for sure you need one of the other settings. Select "Analyze and Fix." You can save your final "fixedup" PDF/X-1a:2001 PDF as whatever name you choose and it will create the file.
In my case, the preflight tool determined there were no PDF/X-1a errors in my file. (YAY!) I have read on other threads (such as this one) that there is a glitch in InDesign that can occur with bleed/trim when creating PDF/X-1a. Perhaps there are glitches in other programs, as I have also had this issue in Illustrator.
I found more hints about the preflight tool here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/…
BTW - you would print as PDF/X-1a:2001 format for publishers. Every magazine I have ever advertised in requires ads and articles to be PDF/X-1a:2001 format for PDFs (from Jan 2001 to currently in Oct 2016).
Hope this helps anyone in the future who is just as stumped! ;)
- lol. print as ps. distill the ps with a custom pdf preset. work done. since 2003.********
- lol. print as ps. distill the ps with a custom pdf preset. work done. since 2003.
- utopian1
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