"[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard

[Dov Isaacs]

Joanna,

FrameMaker is not a graphic arts application. Its output is primarily RGB and the PostScript generated by the driver is not setup to generate PDF that will conform to the PDF/X-1a specification.

The PDF/X-1a specification doesn't allow for any of the cross reference stuff capabilities of PDF, annotations, embedded video, etc. It is strictly for old-style PDF CMYK and spot color printing without any transparency, layers, JPEG2000 compression, etc.

Unfortunately, the current FrameMaker "save as CMYK PDF" doesn't quite work right to yield a CMYK (plus spot color) PDF. The only workaround is to use Distiller settings to convert the RGB to CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition, or to use the color conversion features of Acrobat X Pro to selectively convert colors from RGB to CMYK and then, use the Acrobat X Pro preflight function to "fix" the file and create PDF/X-1a.

	- Dov


> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
> Joanna Przystup
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:10 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: "[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox, or ArtBox on the following
> pages" and PDFX/1-a standard
> 
> I have a problem with distilling ps file with the PDFX/1-a standard.
> Document is printed to ps from the FrameMaker application.
> 
> While distilling file, Acrobat Distiller creates a log containing following
> message:
> "[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox, or ArtBox
> on the following pages"
> and therefore none PDF file is produced.
> 
> I guess that it is related to the cross references. But what is strange - it
> doesn't appear in all of the books. When printed document is structured - it
> is printed well with the PDFX/1-a standard, and doesn't complain about
> annotations.
> 
> I've found two solutions for now - but none of them is actually acceptable:
> -    replace all cross references with text
> -    do not select Generate Acrobat Data when printing
> 
> I will appreciate your help with solving this problem
> 
> Joanna