Am Samstag, dem 13. Jun 2009 schrieb Jelle de Jong:
I am really wondering what the current state is of FLOSS PDF creation software and especially the specialized PDF/? and validations and tools to identify what type of PDF it is?
The options I know about are: - GhostScript commes with a tool named "ps2pdf" to convert PostScript to PDF - OpenOffice.org has a PDF creator included - pdfTeX (also for LaTeX)
The tool "ps2pdf" can also be used for creating PDF/X-3 and PDF/A, but it's not that easy: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/svn/Ps2pdf.htm#PDFX
By the way, ps2pdf can not only read PostScript files, but you can also use it to reencode existing PDF files.