Questions tagged [pdfa]

PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for the digital preservation of electronic documents.

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How to know if a document claims to be in PDF/A using itext

I would check at least if a document claims that it's conformant to PDF/A. How can I do that using iText?
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How to generate a valid PDF/A file using iText and XMLWorker (HTML to PDF/A process)

I'm currently developing a method that will accept HTML input and convert it into a valid PDF/A file. I know how to programmatically construct a valid PDF/A file using iText (reference: http://itextsupport.com/download/pdfa3.html) but I'm unable to…
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Where can I find XSD Schema files for PDF/A XMP metadata?

I am trying to validate the XMP Metadata that are contained in PDF and PDF/A files. Unfortunately, it proved very hard to find the actual XSDs for most namespaces. Is there an official resource pool from Adobe where I could find them? In special, I…
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itext signed pdfa - CIDset in subset font is incomplete

I have a pdf/a compliant file (I use acrobat to do preflight check and it does not find any problems). I then sign the file with itextsharp, using pdfAStamper. There are two possible outcomes of the signing process in itext regarding pdfa…
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GhostScript PDF/A conformance

There seems to be an error in the GhostScript PDF/A generation. When you generate a PDF/A document via GhostScript, when you click on Adobe Reader, there is a Conformance tab which displays: "Conformance: Standard: PDF/A-1B ISO Name: ISO…
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create pdf/a compliant pdf with libharu

i'm trying to create an pdf/a compliant document with libharu, but it doesnt work. The created pdf isn't pdf/a compliant. Here is my small example: pdf = HPDF_New(error_handler, NULL); if (!pdf) { printf("error: cannot…
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PyPDF2 PdfFileMerger loosing PDF module in merged file

I am merging PDF files with PyPDF2 but, when one of the files contains a PDF Module filled with data (a typical application-filled PDF), in the merged file the module is empty, no data is shown. Here's the two methods I am using to merge the…
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PDFBOX generates PDF/A file of very large size

I am trying to create PDF/A file using PDFBOX and file genearation is done successfully but generated file is very large in size... Some times 500 MBs or even more. Is there any way to decrease file size while generation ?
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Adding XMP Meta Dublin language with FOP 2.1

I want to create a valid PDF/A2-b File. After that in wanna put in a ZUGFeRD invoice with the PDFLib libary. Every time I check the PDF with a Online Validator I get the following error: rechnung.pdf does not conform to PDF/A. Validating file…
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Ghostscript won't convert PDF to PDF/A. Annotation Issue

I'm trying to convert a PDF to PDF/A. At every pass I'm getting the error "GPL Ghostscript 9.19: Annotation set to non-printing, not permitted in PDF/A, reverting to normal PDF output". The PDF has previously been generated from HTML by…
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Apache PDFBox and PDF/A-3

Is it possible to use Apache PDFBox to process PDF/A-3 documents? (Especially for changing field values?) The PDFBox 1.8 Cookbook says that it is possible to create PDF/A-1 documents with pdfaid.setPart(1); Can I apply pdfaid.setPart(3) for a…
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How to load ICC profile from classpath?

While trying to generate PDF that conforms to PDF/A standard using Jasper Reports, I got net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRPdfaIccProfileNotFoundException. This is easily fixed by configuring
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Convert pdf to pdf/a using iText library

I want to export document to PdfAConformanceLevel.PDF_A_1B conformance, but when I do document.close, I get error below, resulting pdf is not usable. I use following itext versions: itextpdf
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How to fill a PDF/A-1 in Java

I've got a pdf/a-1 form which I have to fill in Java. The problem is, it works perfectly fine with normal pdf but not with pdf/a-1. Using a normal pdf form, I display the form fields and implement an HashMap from which I generate myself an fdf…
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PdfAWriter not converting unordered lists and tables

I'm having trouble using PdfAWriter class to convert my HTML to PDF, the HTML gets converted normally until it finds a table or a list. If I use PdfWriter class it works fine, but I need a PDF/A version. Here is the code I'm using to make the…
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