I need to submit my thesis in PDF/A format. I am using LyX, but I don't think that is relevant for my question.
I get this error message when running pdfx
package:
! pdfTeX error (ext5): cannot open file for embedding.
l.137 ...eam attr{/N 4} file{sRGBIEC1966-2.1.icm}
The documentation says to put any color file in the pdfx
folder and rename it to sRGBIEC1966-2.1.icm
.
I have tried this and get the same error. Anyone know how to fix this?
Best Answer
pdfTeX looks for the file with the name
sRGBIEC1966-2.1.icm
exactly. Depending on the operating system/file system also uppercase/lowercase matters. Renaming the file name extension from.icc
to.icm
is not enough, also the file name must match.If the file is put in the folder
pdfx
, then this folder is probably inside thetexmf
distribution tree (a better place would be a local/home tree). Then the file name database must be updated.texhash
/mktexlsr
in case of TeX Live and in case of MiKTeX the action must be done in admin mode (Maintennance (Admin)
). Otherwise the file name databases for the systemtexmf
tree is skipped and not updated.The program
kpsewhich
can be used on the command line in both TeX Live and MiKTeX to check, whether a file would be found by TeX:It should report the file name with the complete path.