Hi,

I'm definitely sorry about the crappy pdf file that was referenced by the message I cited.

I didn't try this file in particular. I cited the message only because it was describing the very

same problem I observed too.

2016-01-22 16:27 GMT+01:00 Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:

On 1/22/2016 3:34 PM, Fabrice Popineau wrote:

As this problem surfaced again on the GUTenberg mailing list, I decided
to ask.

Here is my attempts width the attached test.tex file :
- without the use of the pdfx package, the validator returns
Message : No document catalog dictionary
- with the use of the pdfx package, the validator returns
Message : Lexical error
which is annoying and may indicate some kind of error
(but is it low level in pdftex or rather in the pdfx package ?)
- after using Acrobat and saving test.pdf as pdf/a-1b, the validator is
accepting it.

well, no document catalog is pretty hard to achieve unless one really messes up so indeed it might be a macro package issue

'No document catalog dictionary' is what you get with the simplest latex file by default.

you can mail me the test file (use \pdfcompresslevel0) as i cannot process it here

Done.

Apologies if the problem lies somewhere at the macro level.

But I was pretty sure to find the needed expertise here :-)

Best regards,

Fabrice