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This page describes necessary steps | This page describes necessary steps to create PDF/A compliant PDFs from pdftex and related issues. When we compile a latex document with pdftex, there can be a few issues that can prevents the result from begin pdf/a compliant, such as: | ||
* problems with fonts: | * problems with fonts: | ||
** font files are not embedded, | ** font files are not embedded, | ||
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* problem with interword spacing: pdftex don't use space to separate words in pdf output. | * problem with interword spacing: pdftex don't use space to separate words in pdf output. | ||
The usual way to verify if a pdf file is pdf/a compliant is to use a validating tool. There are a few pdf/a checking tools; the most common one is using the Preflight tools in Acrobat Professional version 8 or newer. In this document, we assume the following | The usual way to verify if a pdf file is pdf/a compliant is to use a validating tool. There are a few pdf/a checking tools; the most common one is using the Preflight tools in Acrobat Professional version 8 or newer. In this document, we assume the following: | ||
* tex live 2008 (with includes pdftex version 1.40.9) | * input are latex documents | ||
* tex live 2008 (with includes pdftex version 1.40.9) is used for latexing | |||
* Acrobat 8.0 for pdf/a validation | * Acrobat 8.0 for pdf/a validation | ||
Revision as of 03:19, 23 November 2008
Introduction
This page describes necessary steps to create PDF/A compliant PDFs from pdftex and related issues. When we compile a latex document with pdftex, there can be a few issues that can prevents the result from begin pdf/a compliant, such as:
- problems with fonts:
- font files are not embedded,
- mismatch of character widths,
- characters of zero widths,
- fonts don't have a ToUnicode mapping
- problems with medata:
- XMP data not included,
- XMP data don't match the info in pdfInfo catalog.
- problem with interword spacing: pdftex don't use space to separate words in pdf output.
The usual way to verify if a pdf file is pdf/a compliant is to use a validating tool. There are a few pdf/a checking tools; the most common one is using the Preflight tools in Acrobat Professional version 8 or newer. In this document, we assume the following:
- input are latex documents
- tex live 2008 (with includes pdftex version 1.40.9) is used for latexing
- Acrobat 8.0 for pdf/a validation
We start by a minimal example, and then move to more complex ones, to illustrate the issues one may encounter when trying to achieve pdf/a compliance.