On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:02 PM, William Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
It doesn't work for me. I have tried PDF/A-1b:2005(CMYK) and PDF/A-1b:2005(RGB), and preflight still complains. In particular it gives me an error "Width information for glyphs is inconsistent (1 match on 1 page)" I tried the conversion directly through Distiller and within Acrobat itself... > William > > -- > William Adams > senior graphic designer > Fry Communications > > > -- Ernesto Posse Applied Formal Methods Group - Software Technology Lab School of Computing Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada
