PDF/X-3:2002

Easy question: How to convert a MS Word document into PDF/X-3:2002 (ISO 15930-3:2002) document?

Outdated information

Official or semi-official publicly available pages are not well maintained.

http://www.pdfx.info redirects to pdfreport.com - there for supporting errors the email given is info AT pdfx.info - but for several report sent there, the mailer reported delivery problems.

There is also the GWG website, but they too have outdated information as confirmed by the person that replied to a report sent to support AT gwg.org.

http://www.bvdm-online.de/aktuelles/downloads.php?Action=GetFile&FileID=19 mentions "PDF/X-3 Inspector (Freeware)" but after going the long path

• http://www.bvdm-online.de/aktuelles/downloads.php?Action=Download&FileID=19
• http://www.pdfx.info
• http://www.pdfxreport.com/doku.php?id=en:start
• http://www.pdfxreport.com/doku.php?id=en:downloads

One ends up with : "PDF/X-3 Inspector (Freeware) ... Before downloading… Please note that in order to run PDF/X-3 Inspector (Freeware) the full version of Adobe Acrobat version 5.05 is required. PDF/X-3 Inspector does not run with the free Acrobat Reader."

2002

Apache OpenOffice 2010

• http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27238&start=0
  • it is suggested to save as PDF/A which results in font embedding.
  • i.e. there seems to be no support and additionally,

Ghostscript:

• Resource in Portuguese: http://meiradarocha.jor.br/news/2012/08/25/como-criar-um-documento-pdfx-3-com-o-ghostscript/