Greetings. The woman that runs our research group complains that she is unable to print PDF documents that a couple of us in the group send her, and that the two of us are the only source of such troublesome documents.
It occurred to me that the two of us are the only ones in the group that use Emacs Org-mode to produce PDF documents. I know there are web sites that can validate (i.e., measure conformance to the standard of) HTML documents. I wondered if there might be something similar for PDF documents. I found the following site: http://www.validatepdfa.com/ I don't much about the PDF standard, and I don't know anything about the reliability of this site, but I've found that PDF documents that I generate using Org-mode and send to that site come back with a boatload of validation errors. I've appended a sample Org-mode file that generates errors when I try to validate it. I've appended details of my configuration below the sample file. I should mention that I have no trouble viewing the PDF file (using "evince" on my Fedora system) or printing this file (to a Brother b/w printer). Ditto for my colleague on a MacOS X system. Hence, I personally have no reason to complain. But there's that nagging issue with the boss. Can anybody comment as to what I should expect in the way of validation? And/or are there any settings that would affect this behavior? I.e., something like: (setq org-export-pdf-use-strict t) Thanks. -- Mike ###### Beginning of sample Org-mode file #+PROPERTY: session *R* #+PROPERTY: cache yes #+PROPERTY: results output verbatim #+PROPERTY: tangle yes * This is a test #+BEGIN_SRC R :exports both x <- 7.2 y <- 3 print(x * y) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : 21.6 ###### End of sample Org-mode file Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.13) of 2012-11-17 on buildvm-30.phx2.fedoraproject.org Package: Org-mode version 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-656-g2f9dda @ /usr/local/emacs.d/org-mode/org-devel/org-mode/lisp/) current state: ============== (setq org-export-preprocess-before-selecting-backend-code-hook '(org-beamer-select-beamer-code) org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe org-src-native-tab-command-maybe org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe org-babel-header-arg-expand) org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-default-hook org-babel-speed-command-hook) org-export-html-after-blockquotes-hook '(org-special-blocks-convert-html-special-cookies) org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter) org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe) org-export-preprocess-before-normalizing-links-hook '(org-remove-file-link-modifiers) org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-export-latex-after-blockquotes-hook '(org-special-blocks-convert-latex-special-cookies) org-export-latex-final-hook '(org-beamer-amend-header org-beamer-fix-toc org-beamer-auto-fragile-frames org-beamer-place-default-actions-for-lists) org-export-latex-after-initial-vars-hook '(org-beamer-after-initial-vars) org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current) org-from-is-user-regexp "\\<Michael Hannon\\>" org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer) org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text) org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer) org-mode-hook '(#[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207" [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-block-all append local] 5] #[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207" [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result-all append local] 5] org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes) org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook '(org-babel-hash-at-point org-babel-execute-safely-maybe) org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-drawers org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks org-cycle-show-empty-lines org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change) org-export-latex-format-toc-function 'org-export-latex-format-toc-default org-export-first-hook '(org-beamer-initialize-open-trackers) org-babel-tangle-lang-exts '(("C++" . "cpp") ("latex" . "tex") ("python" . "py") ("lisp" . "lisp") ("emacs-lisp" . "el")) org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe) org-structure-template-alist '(("r" "#+begin_src R\n\n#+end_src" "<src lang=\"R\">\n\n</src>") ("S" "#+BEGIN_SRC ?\n\n#+END_SRC" "<src lang=\"?\">\n\n</src>") ("s" "#+BEGIN_SRC ?\n\n#+END_SRC" "<src lang=\"?\">\n\n</src>") ("e" "#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE\n?\n#+END_EXAMPLE" "<example>\n?\n</example>") ("q" "#+BEGIN_QUOTE\n?\n#+END_QUOTE" "<quote>\n?\n</quote>") ("v" "#+BEGIN_VERSE\n?\n#+END_VERSE" "<verse>\n?\n</verse>") ("c" "#+BEGIN_CENTER\n?\n#+END_CENTER" "<center>\n?\n</center>") ("l" "#+BEGIN_LaTeX\n?\n#+END_LaTeX" "<literal style=\"latex\">\n?\n</literal>") ("L" "#+LaTeX: " "<literal style=\"latex\">?</literal>") ("h" "#+BEGIN_HTML\n?\n#+END_HTML" "<literal style=\"html\">\n?\n</literal>") ("H" "#+HTML: " "<literal style=\"html\">?</literal>") ("a" "#+BEGIN_ASCII\n?\n#+END_ASCII") ("A" "#+ASCII: ") ("i" "#+INDEX: ?" "#+INDEX: ?") ("I" "#+INCLUDE: %file ?" "<include file=%file markup=\"?\">") ) org-babel-load-languages '((emacs-lisp . t) (lisp . t) (gnuplot . t) (R . t) (dot . t) (python . t) (sh . t) (latex . t) (C . t) (octave \.t)) org-agenda-files '("~/Documents/scratch.org") org-clock-out-hook '(org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer) org-confirm-babel-evaluate 'my-org-confirm-babel-evaluate org-export-preprocess-after-blockquote-hook '(org-special-blocks-make-special-cookies) org-src-fontify-natively t )
