Acrobat PDF/X - Portable Document Format - Exchange PDF/X-5n

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PDF/X was developed by the Committee for Graphics Arts Technologies Standards (CGATS) and Adobe. This 'exchange standard' format is based on Adobe's PDF specification and includes additional notes specifically to facilitate graphics exchange. PDF/X is a subset of the PDF specification, and is an application standard as well as a file format standard. There are several versions of the standard, which address specific issues.

Identify it

Extensions	`.pdf`
MIME types	`application/pdf`
Signatures	`255044462d312e` at byte 0 (PDF/X-5n)
PRONOM	`fmt/492`
Wikidata	`Q29946914`

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AudiverisOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License
AvogadroOpen sourcewrites · 3-clause BSD License
CC PDF ConverterOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License
CeltxOpen sourcereads and writes · Mozilla Public License
DendroscopeOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
DokielOpen sourcewrites · CeCILL / GNU General Public License, version 3.0 / GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0 / Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
dvipdfmxOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
Eclipse ChemClipseOpen sourcewrites · Eclipse Public License
GigaMeshOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License
GIMPOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
GNOME PlannerOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
gscan2pdfOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
Integrated Genome BrowserOpen sourcewrites · Common Public License
KarbonOpen sourcewrites · GNU Lesser General Public License
LibreOfficeOpen sourcewrites · MPL-2.0
LibreOfficeOpen sourcereads and writes · Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
LibreOffice DrawOpen sourcereads and writes · Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
librsvgOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License / GNU General Public License, version 2.0 / GNU Lesser General Public License / GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0
MatplotlibOpen sourcewrites · Matplotlib license
MuPDFOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0 or later
NtEdOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
OCRmyPDFOpen sourcereads and writes · Expat license / Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
OpaleOpen sourcereads and writes · CeCILL / GNU General Public License, version 3.0 / GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0 / Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
OpenOffice WriterOpen sourcewrites · GNU Lesser General Public License
OrbadaOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License
PandocOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
PdfcpuOpen sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0
PDFCreatorOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
PDFeditOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License
pdfjamOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
pdfTeXOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
phpMyAdminOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
PLplotOpen sourcewrites · GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0 or later
PotraceOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License
Q141647662Open sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Q141647664Open sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Q141674354Open sourcewrites · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Q141674391Open sourcewrites · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Q2025399Open sourcewrites · Eclipse Public License 2.0

And 263 more in the JSON record.

Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.pdf out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.pdf out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pdf out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pdf out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pdf out.webp` Lossy compression.

Sources

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