This question is not a LyX-only question, but I thought maybe someone
here could have an idea on this issue.
Has anyone succeeded in producing a PDF/A file (PDF for archival) from
LyX/LaTeX? I've tried tools that claim to generate PDF/A from
PostScript files or PDF files (both for Windows and Linux) but I
haven't been successful in generating a file which is considered PDF/A
compliant by at least two different validators, even with the
following minimal file (in LaTeX) via dvips:
=== file a.tex ===
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Just this line...
\end{document}
=== end of file ===
I've tried generating through dvips:
dvips -o a.ps a.dvi
or
dvips -Ppdf -o a.ps a.dvi
then through ghostscript/ps2pdf as described in
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm (I tried it on both
Windows Vista and Ubuntu)
I also tried generating with dvipdf and pdflatex, and then using a PDF
to PDF/A converter.
I've tried Acrobat 9 Pro (Distiller on Windows Vista), as well as
PDF2PDF from pdf-tools.com (On Windows Vista, XP and Ubuntu), PDF
Quick Master (On Windows XP), and PDF Appraiser (On Windows Vista and
XP)
Acrobat Distiller produces a PDF file and claims it is PDF/A
compliant, but when I run the compliance test within Acrobat, it
fails! (An Acrobat generated PDF/A file fails the Acrobat PDF/A test!)
Any ideas on how to generate PDF/A from LaTeX would be welcome...
Thanks
--
Ernesto Posse
Applied Formal Methods Group - Software Technology Lab
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada
