PDF/X-3:2002

Easy question: How, using Windows OS, to convert a MS Word or PDF document into

• PDF/X-3:2002 (ISO 15930-3:2002) document,
• using ICC profile "ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI)" from http://www.eci.org/en/downloads
• 300 dpi ?

Answer: (None)

Warning: As of 2012-12-10 there is even one site, http://freepdfxp.de/xpinfo.html, claiming it cannot be done: "macht es auch für FreePDF und Ghostscript keinen Sinn, diese nach CMYK zu wandeln. Microsoft Office ist z.B. ein RGB Kandidat - mit MS Office Produkten kann deshalb niemals etwas an eine Druckerei gegeben werden, wenn es auf die Farben ankommt. "

Official and semi-official pages

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There is also the GWG website, but they too have outdated information as confirmed by the person that replied to a report sent to support AT gwg.org.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

Other pages

Apache OpenOffice (fails to properly open the doc anyway)

• https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=77791 - created in 2007-05-25 - not solved as of 2012-12-10
• 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,

LibreOffice 6.. (fails to properly open the doc anyway)

Nitro

• no PDF/X-3 option, but PDF/A-1b with font embedding full or subset is possible.

Ghostscript:

• Resource in Portuguese: http://meiradarocha.jor.br/news/2012/08/25/como-criar-um-documento-pdfx-3-com-o-ghostscript/
  • could not be tested yet,
    • cmd.exe didn't except the command proposed there
    • Ghostscript terminal did not allow pasting of command line