![]() There are online verifiers but I'd not use these for anything else than just checking that your PDF outputs are basically ok. PDFlib seems to have a free PDF/A compliance checker, but nothing similar related to PDF/X. The price is low, and a free trial is available, so it might be worth a check And it edits text far more efficiently than Adobe Acrobat Pro does. It does not by any means replace Acrobat Pro, and it cannot be used as a Preflight tool, but it has an impressive set of well-crafted Acrobat Pro kinds of features, including capability to convert color modes, create PDF/A and PDF/X compliant PDFs, check font usage, etc. I purchased recently PDF-XChange Editor Plus and PDF Tools by Tracker Software to be able to create a fully PDF/A compliant document (which InDesign failed to create: the versions produced were not accepted, but I have no clue why, probably because of some trivial flag not been set as required) - and have found this package to be surprisingly robust and efficient tool for many tasks where Affinity apps fail to deliver (e.g. That said, I have been hoping there might be some 3rd party standalone app which might do those tricks and be reasonably priced as well – but looking through the posts here that may be a hope that won't be fulfilled any time soon (if ever, that is).ĥ00 bucks for Callas PDFToolbox is certainly way too heavy – but it seems like it's the only app which does all the tricks you may need at some time when you need to pass on production safe PDFs to printers. I rare but crucial cases it has also helped me with prepress specials like reducing ink density in some PDFs created by InDesign (you won't possibly think so, but you can actually output PDFs having 400% ink in certain spots with InDesign ALTHOUGH you're applying a color profile with a 340% max setting while doing so. I – like others – have used Acrobat Pro mainly for preflight purposes and do so still with version 9.5.5 on my old machine running El Capitan. This is a very interesting discussion as I have been asking myself for some time now how I could possibly replace Acrobat Pro once I've moved completely to the Affinity apps and a new Mac running (for the time being) Mojave. aaaaaand here's where i remember you were looking for Mac *doh* well maybe some part of that will lead you to an actual solution lol I hope any of that was in some way helpful. As far as PDF programs, I am currently using the free PDF24 products, which are free. ![]() Then I came across an article showing how to get Illustrator CS2 for free, so I did that and it also handles color seps (and text warping!) just fine, despite its age and the fact that I'm using Windows 10. Then I discovered that Affinity's predecessor, (the Plus products) DrawPlusX8 also does color separations and I began using that. ![]() While I was looking for a similar solution when I first started with Affinity, I made my designs and exported them to do color separations with Scribus (which is free) and that worked well enough. I can't remember if ink density was an option but AI did my seps and then i could use whatever pdf program I wanted from there. When i was using Illustrator, I did all my work using the Pantone spot colors, then Illustrator would handle the color separations. ![]() Looks like I'm sticking with Acrobat Pro 9 then which does the job on c hecking separations and ink density, Verify PDF/X standards conformance, but won't run on new macs FFS - can't believe theres no alternative?!?!?!?! ![]()
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