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| NTQ | Hi. I am running ghostscript 9.10 on my Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to convert a PDF to PDF/A. Then I found this git with a makefile which can convert PDF to PDF/A, but it does not work as expected: https://github.com/steshaw/metathesis | 10:41.15 |
| kens | Use current Ghostscript release (9.16) | 10:42.46 |
| | Follow instructions in documentation for creatng PDF/A | 10:42.57 |
| | %-12345X@PJL SETTHs works | 10:43.00 |
| | %-12345X@PJL SETWe cannot help you with someone else's code | 10:43.10 |
| | %-12345X@PJL SETNote you are *NOT* 'converting' the PDF< you are creating a new one. | 10:43.43 |
| NTQ | kens: Hi ken. I will try to install a newer version of gs. Can you please verify my setup? http://pastebin.com/4wmDUDhv | 10:45.15 |
| | This is the PDFA_def.ps file: http://pastebin.com/zLgfT8Ar | 10:47.18 |
| kens | You need to edit pdfa-def.ps | 10:47.24 |
| NTQ | I did not find any documentation about editing the PDFA file. It looks very complicated. | 10:48.24 |
| kens | Its self documented, wehere it says 'customise' you need to edit it | 10:50.53 |
| | Its a PostScript program | 10:51.05 |
| | Your pastebin shows: | 10:51.11 |
| | Error: /undefinedfilename in --file-- | 10:51.27 |
| | Operand stack: | 10:51.27 |
| | --nostringval-- --nostringval-- | 10:51.27 |
| | (ISO Coated sb.icc) (r) | 10:51.27 |
| | undefinedfilename means exactly what it says | 10:51.41 |
| | ANd the filename whch is undefined is (ISO Coated sb.icc) | 10:52.02 |
| | That is defined in PDFA_def.ps, and you need to edit it | 10:52.12 |
| NTQ | I did this already. | 10:52.32 |
| kens | THen why did you pastebin an error message ? | 10:52.46 |
| NTQ | Could it be the case that ghostscript looks for the system wide PDFA_Def.ps file instead of that one in the current directory? | 10:52.57 |
| kens | It looks in the lib directory | 10:53.18 |
| | Unless you specify something else, eg ./PDFA_def.ps | 10:53.39 |
| NTQ | Got it. | 10:53.46 |
| | So easy. -.- | 10:53.56 |
| kens | Actually, I htnk that's not true | 10:54.00 |
| | But anyway, that's what your problem is | 10:54.21 |
| NTQ | I did not modify the file in the lib directory. I copied it to my user for modifying | 10:54.47 |
| kens | In any event you should use current code, you should *NOT* use -dUseCIEColor with it (and it will give you a warning if you do) | 10:54.48 |
| | I can't see how it would find the one in lib. Try using a fully qualified path to tit | 10:57.03 |
| NTQ | kens: With an absolute path it works from terminal. | 11:16.42 |
| Robin_Watts | Ugh. My second monitor just died. Going to be very cramped until another one can be delivered. | 13:40.18 |
| kens | :-( | 13:40.32 |
| Robin_Watts | By the power of amazon prime that should be tomorrow though. | 13:43.57 |
| tor8 | Robin_Watts: which monitor are you getting? | 13:46.23 |
| Robin_Watts | tor8: cheap 1920x1200 5ms TFT replacement. | 13:46.42 |
| tor8 | I didn't think TN-film came in 1920x1200 | 13:47.05 |
| Robin_Watts | I really don't see the pointhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00GJELMB2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 | 13:47.33 |
| | ooh, I lie. it's IPS. | 13:47.41 |
| tor8 | Robin_Watts: yeah, IPS has dropped a lot in price. I'm quite happy with my Samsung PLS monitors. A bit of color-tinting towards the edge but the non-glossy and non-grainy finish is awesome. | 13:48.48 |
| Robin_Watts | tor8: I'm very happy with my DELL main monitor. | 13:49.02 |
| | but I only pondered a 4K display for about 2 seconds. | 13:49.21 |
| tor8 | IPS panels have a tendency to have really aggressive non-gloss finishes with a lot of grain, but the DELL ones have the same sort of finish as my samsungs | 13:49.24 |
| Robin_Watts | I'd need a new graphics card, and a new PC etc. | 13:49.43 |
| | Which I may well end up getting later this year, but... | 13:49.54 |
| tor8 | and fix all your software to cope with the ultra high res :( | 13:50.03 |
| Robin_Watts | tor8: yeah. | 13:50.11 |
| pedro_mac | has a few Samsung syncmaster 2343 (2048x1152) - pretty decent res and reliable | 13:51.07 |
| Robin_Watts | actually, I'm going to cancel it and get the newer version of my DELL. | 13:51.47 |
| tor8 | I replaced my 27" IPS DELL with 3 Samsung 24" PLS monitors a while ago. Desk is a bit overcrowded, but I really do prefer three smaller monitors I can place at angles to one big monitor. | 13:52.31 |
| | I do have to use both the motherboard intel graphics combined with an nvidia card to drive all three at the same time, with an awkward mix of HDMI and DVI cables... | 13:53.59 |
| henrys | Good morning folks, I'll be flying out tomorrow, I'll be dependent on the show for connectivity but definitely get to email, irc and skype once a day. | 14:00.51 |
| kens | Good Luck Henry | 14:01.06 |
| Robin_Watts | henrys: have fun. | 14:09.24 |
| henrys | tor8: I meant to ask you at the last meeting if you will be using Jeong's stuff as a guide or integrating large parts of it directly or not using it at all. I might have to negotiate with him to get AGPL release if you are using the code directly. | 14:21.56 |
| tor8 | henrys: as a guide, the code is not usable directly (it's C++ and integrates with his C++ port of an ancient version of mupdf) | 14:22.50 |
| henrys | tor8: thanks | 14:24.02 |
| | tor8: I can't get over him doing that. It makes 0 sense | 14:25.19 |
| tor8 | You and me both. | 14:25.33 |
| NTQ | Hi. What do I need when I want to change the meta data while converting a PDF to PDF/A? | 14:35.49 |
| kens | insufficient detail | 14:36.17 |
| | what meta data ? | 14:39.34 |
| NTQ | Author, title, etc. All that you can see if you open that PDF with Adove Acrobat -> File -> Properties -> Meta information | 14:44.57 |
| kens | pdfmark | 14:45.43 |
| NTQ | kens: Hm... For some reason title, author and creator were not set by ghostscript. It takes the info from input pdf file and writes its author and title in the output. | 15:31.35 |
| kens | THat's right yes | 15:31.47 |
| NTQ | kens: Can I modify that behaviour? | 15:32.47 |
| kens | THe last pdfmark takes precedence, and the PDF has info, so it gets turned into a pdfmark, and that's the last one. UNLESS you send the pdfmark after you process the PDF | 15:32.50 |
| NTQ | Thank you. It's working. | 15:33.55 |
| | If I run the online validator fromhttp://www.pdf-tools.com against the created PDF/A-1b I get some errors. http://pastebin.com/mgqTYCFV | 16:00.06 |
| | Do I have to add the missing and wrong information to my pdfmarks-file? | 16:00.06 |
| kens | I have no idea. Ths code is known to work if you follow the instructions given in the documentation. | 16:00.30 |
| | also looks like you used the wrong ICC profile | 16:01.14 |
| NTQ | I use some ICC profile found on the web named "sRGB Color Space Profile.icm" | 16:02.04 |
| | I have no idea what else I should use ^^ | 16:02.56 |
| kens | does it work if you don't mess with the meta data ? KISS | 16:03.24 |
| NTQ | kens: Then there are less errors. CreateDate and ModifyDate are okay then. | 16:07.55 |
| | I see that you'Ve fixed the issue with dc:description already. I really should install the latest git version. ;) | 16:16.35 |
| | Okay. Now I have Ghostscript GIT PRERELEASE 9.18 and still got some errors with the validator. The XMP property 'dc:description' and 'pdf:keywords' are not synchronized with the document informtion entry. And the 'lang alt' is missing for dc:description. | 16:46.27 |
| Robin_Watts | henrys: For next year: http://wasatch100.com/ | 17:44.21 |
| | 100 miles. Up 25763 ft, Down 25252 ft. | 17:44.44 |
| | It's running at the moment. My friend is in 3rd position currently... | 17:45.56 |
| | The 2 guys in front are over a decade younger than him too. | 17:46.34 |
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