Re: [NTG-context] How to create a PDF/A file with mkii?

Hi Luigi, I did a test with mkiv (see the tex file attached), and then tested the resulting pdf file on the site you mentioned, http://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf/validate-pdfa-online.aspx Unfortunately it says that the PDF produced by mkiv is not conform: test-PDF-A-1b.pdf does not conform to PDF/A. Validating file "test-PDF-A-1b.pdf" for conformance level pdfa-1a Invalid content of XMP packet header attribute 'id': 'dtlnfbrryjnvabnrajbkrpyw'. dc:description :: Wrong value type. Expected type 'lang alt'. The XMP property 'pdfaid:conformance' has the invalid value 'B'. Required is 'A'. The key MarkInfo is required but missing. A device-specific color space (DeviceGray) without an appropriate output intent is used. The document does not conform to the requested standard. The document contains device-specific color spaces. The document's meta data is either missing or inconsistent or corrupt. The document doesn't provide appropriate logical structure information. Done. So, I don’t know how to solve the issue of creating a PDF/A. Thanks for any hint. Best regards: OK On 02 Jul 2014, at 17:35, luigi scarso wrote:

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Thanks Luigi!

It turns out that with some slight modifications I could typeset the mentioned project with mkiv. Then after having added the following from your article:

%% For PDF/A \setupbackend[ format={pdf/a-1a:2005}, profile={default_cmyk.icc, default_rgb.icc,default_gray.icc}, intent={% ISO coated v2 300\letterpercent\space (ECI)} ] %% Tagged PDF %% method=auto ==> default tags by Adobe \setupstructure[state=start,method=auto]

I could get a PDF which looks fine: but now I have to make sure that it is PDF/A compliant. Right now I don’t hav etime to check this, but in any case you gave me good hope… Thanks! The problem is the pdf/a validator ... it's better to use that one the counterpart . An important one is the preflight of acrobat professional. If it says that it's ok , then "it's hard to assert that it's not ok" . Also this one maybe can help: http://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf/validate-pdfa-online.aspx but privacy can be an issue.

Imho, a school (or whatever educational structure) that require a pdf/a should also offer a service to validate a pdf, and a report if validation fails.

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