Hi John,
On 2011-11-28 21:50 John C Klensin said the following:
>
>
> --On Monday, November 28, 2011 21:42 +0100 Henrik Levkowetz
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> One small suggestion, partially prompted by my attempts to
>>> convert PDF and Postscript RFCs to PDF/A: when the converter
>>> cannot or does not succeed in producing valid PDF/A, could
>>> that fact be logged in some accessible place?
>>
>> I would if I could; the problem is that the converter produces
>> a pdf document without giving any indication that the result
>> won't validate as PDF/A
>
> That is what I believe is called "broken". I hope someone can
> make a problem report.
Yes. I suspect the authors of the software aren't aware of the
problem. Robinson Tryon has now filed a ticket with LibreOffice
about it, though; and I've provided him with another sample which
fails validation.
>> -- it's only when trying it with one
>> of the online validators that I get a message that it fails
>> validation. If at some point I find a (free) command-line
>> validator, I can however easily run it on the existing corpus
>> and get the desired information.
>
> If the best (or only) way to handle this is via pos-production
> validation, then we can presumably do that at any time... and
> validators will probably get better over time too.
Ack.
> Suggestion withdrawn.
>
> thanks for considering it.
Certainly!
>>> Also, mostly out of curiosity, does "unoconv" produce profile
>>> 1a or profile 1b?
>>
>> The validator tells me that the files which validate does so
>> against both A-1a and A-1b, which if I understand things
>> correctly indicate that it's 1a-compliant, since 1b is a
>> subset of 1a. This also matches what libreoffice is supposed
>> to produce.
>
> Yes. Without going down that rathole, I think (haven't studied
> the issue closely enough to be confident) A-1b would be good
> enough for our purposes so it may be vaguely possible that the
> files actually are 1b-conformant. Not worth worrying about
> until and unless we are ready to get really serious about this,
> establish specific norms, etc. I don't see that happening
> really soon despite the recent discussions.
You may be right.
Best regards,
Henrik
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