🚀 press-ready

Make your PDF compliant with press-ready PDF/X-1a.

Install
Usage
Tips
Advanced Usage
Contribution

Install

via Docker 🐳 (Recommended)

Pull vibranthq/press-ready image from Docker Hub.

docker pull vibranthq/press-ready

then assign an alias for press-ready:

alias press-ready="docker run --rm -it -v \$PWD:/workdir vibranthq/press-ready"

via npm 📦

npm install -g press-ready # npm
yarn global add press-ready # yarn

and install system dependencies to run press-ready.

macOS

brew install poppler ghostscript

Ubuntu

apt-get install poppler-utils ghostscript

Windows

Download and install the Ghostscript for Windows at https://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html. Then, add the installed Ghostscript's bin directory (e.g., "C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.52\bin") to the PATH environment variable.

Download and install the Xpdf command line tools for Windows at http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html. Then, add the installed Xpdf's bin directory (e.g., "C:\xpdf-tools-win-4.02\bin64") to the PATH environment variable.

Usage

Run press-ready with -i, --input. If -o, --output is missing, output.pdf going to be used for default output path.

press-ready build -i <input.pdf> -o <output.pdf>

Run with --help for the help.

❯ press-ready --help
press-ready <command>

Commands:
  press-ready build         build PDF
  press-ready lint <input>  lint PDF

Options:
  --version  Show version number                                       [boolean]
  --help     Show help                                                 [boolean]

Options

Color Mode

Press-ready will use CMYK by default. Give --gray-scale option to let them use Grayscale instead.

pres-ready build \
  --input ./input.pdf \
  --output ./output.pdf \
  --gray-scale

Boundary Boxes

Option --boundary-boxes will build TrimBox, CropBox and BleedBox on a generated PDF.

press-ready build \
  --input ./input.pdf \
  --output ./output.pdf \
  --boundary-boxes

Outlined Fonts

You might not want to use this option since press-ready automatically guess whether embedded fonts should be outlined. However, you can still control this behavior by passing --enforce-outline or --no-enforce-outline.

press-ready bulid \
  --input ./input.pdf \
  --output ./output.pdf \
  --enforce-outline

Color Profile

Currently, there is only support for Japan 2001 Coated. If you have any suggestions, please consider submitting an issue.

Tips

Lint PDF

press-ready lint ./input.pdf

press-ready lint command produces lint result on specified PDF.

==> Linting metadata for './cli/test/fixture/review.pdf'
==> Title Re:VIEWテンプレート
==> Page No. 8
==> PDF version 1.5
==> TrimBox 48.19,66.61,467.72,661.89
==> BleedBox 39.68,58.11,476.22,670.39
==> Listing fonts
name                                      type         embedded  subset
ORFHCM+NimbusSanL-Regu                    Type 1C      yes       yes
JCEWND+NimbusSanL-Bold                    Type 1C      yes       yes
ASNLWJ+NotoSansCJKjp-Bold-Identity-H      CID Type 0C  yes       yes
HPDDST+LMRoman9-Regular                   Type 1C      yes       yes
RJMBNU+NotoSerifCJKjp-Regular-Identity-H  CID Type 0C  yes       yes
==> Every font is properly embedded or no fonts embedded

Pull resource from AWS S3

! This feature is not yet available in press-ready v2. If you need this feature, use press-ready v1 (vibranthq/pdfx) image instead.

Just run with S3 URL: docker run -t vibranthq/press-ready <input s3url> <output s3url>.

For fetching and uploading AWS S3 resources, you need to set env var AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.

docker run --rm -it \
  -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<aws_key_id> \
  -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<aws_secret> \
  vibranthq/pdfx s3://bucket/input.pdf s3://bucket/output.pdf