On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:
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:
Since pdflatex can't insert .pdf tags (or is there a package for this?), you need to certify against pdf/A-1b:
- Open the file in Adobe Acrobat - Save File As and choose as Format: PDF/A - choose pdf/a-1b in the pop-up - quit Acrobat - re-open the file - preflight (successfully) as PDF/A-1b William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications