Hi there,
I'm using Distiller 19.21 ...
To generate a PDF I always print to postscript from Indesign and afterwards the Distiller generates the PDF-file. When there is in error (somewhere in a bad EPS [binary EPS for example], foreign PDF or in a Picture) the Distiller stops the PDF creating, I can search and remove the cause for the error and finally i get a technically perfect PDF for any printing house.

That ist not possible for the PDF-X4-standard ... that is not good at all. To give away a clean PDF-file it is a MUST in my opinion to work in this clean and safe way.

It is by now only possible to export PDF-files directly from Indesign when the PDF-Files should have the X4-standard. But exporting from Indesign makes very big files and does not kill or notice errors in EPS, foreign PDFs or pictures at all - that is really risky.

So when printing to postscript does not support X4 transparencies and the icc-color-stuff etc... What about printing to EPS? Could that work? And then give that EPS to the Distiller-X4...
I think I'm not the only one who wants the PDF X4 standard being established in the Distiller ... am I right?
Greetings to all