Need advice on PDF (X1a)

Our imagesetter went out on us and I've had to outsource for film and as a result had to make more PDFs than I have ever had before.
What is PDF x-1a and why do I like it? What's the difference between it and x3, x4 etc? Can anyone point me to some basics on this?
TIA,
Geoff

Short answer: PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 support flattened transparency (usually PS workflows). PDF/X-4 supports live transparency. PDF/X-3 supports color management. PDF/X-1 does not--only CMYK and spot colors.

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Second, Adobe and designers need to know that they will be rubbing shoulders with authors soon, if they have not already.
I am an author-publisher.
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Unbelievably, such basic information is not given by Adobe (how can they sell things they know nothing about!?)
and Lightning Source no longer allows little guys like me to ask questions to people who may know what's what.
If anyone reading this knows what what, please reply here or write me!
To Lightning Source and Adobe, author publishers are nothing compared to their corporate clients,
but I swear that within 10 years, us little guys will be the majority and they damn well better start thinking about us!
And designers, pardon. I do not mean to put you down but some of us author-editors are poor and cannot afford the fees you require of corporate clients. Please help us and when the big publishers fall, we may, in turn help you!
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Thank you, John. I did stick with what worked until it no longer did: the Printer suddenly stopped making an exception for me and cmyk’ing my rgb. (I used press quality rather than pdfx1a when I did those covers). I cannot blame them, but after spending alot on a designer for my last cover, I thought to try b&w for the next. I am confident I can pdfx1a distill it but wonder if, even then, anything could be ruled unallowable. That is where someone who has done many books with LS would be great to question if only I could find such a person. Meanwhile, I probably will go no fill, as you note it should be safest.
If you or anyone has a post-acrobat 6 pdf'er which is said to convert to cmyk (my adobe 6 does not), I need to find out if it converts the whole thing, including colored background (format=> background colors, including custom ones) and font directly from MS-Word, or only the jpgs and other illustrations. And, if the properties or something will give the total density (color density was another reason given for rejecting my cover) or if that will be settled while distilling to pdfx1a, by excessive density color being pointed out by a notepad textfile as adobe 6 does for any none-grayscale illus).
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