On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:30 AM, William Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote: > >> No, it still doesn't work (either through pdflatex or dvips + ps2pdf >> or dvips + distiller). > > Did you use the PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK) setting in Acrobat Distiller? I tried > this w/ a .ps from dvips and it opened in PDF/A mode.
Yes, that was the setting. When I open the file, Acrobat indeed tells me it is in PDF/A mode, but when I run preflight to check it it gves me the error. >> If I follow your instructions literally, using pdflatex, opening in >> Acrobat and saving as PDF/A, Acrobat complains and tells me to use >> preflight first. > > It shouldn't. You should save as PDF/A-1b, quit, then re-open the document. > This should open it in PDF/A mode. That's exactly what I tried. >> I do so, but this time (from the pdflatex generated >> file) I get a different error: "XMP property neither predefine nor >> defined in extension schema". > > Strange. Can't find that error anywhere (even after adding the ``d'' after > predefine). The missing d was a typo, but I do get that error in preflight. If I use latex + dvips + (distiller or ps2pdf) instead of pdflatex an error saying that the width information of a glyph is inconsistent. >> Could it be a problem with this version of Acrobat, maybe? (I'm using >> Acrobat 9 Pro on Vista + MiKTeK 2.6) > > Well, your minimal example works w/ Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional on Mac OS X > Leopard using MacTeX. > > I seem to recall your having mentioned files created by Adobe Acrobat not > working either --- perhaps the problem is in your Acrobat installation? I meant the PDF/A created by Acrobat from the PS file. > Have you tried d/l'ing a PDF/A document from somewhere and testing it? I do not have any other PDF/A files. I've tried running preflight in a bunch of other pdf files from different origin, but the only one which succeeded was a scanned document. The rest where mostly papers written in either LaTeX or Word. > I'm attaching files which I made w/ dvips/Acrobat and pdflatex --- if they > don't read as PDF/A on your Acrobat, it's broken. The files do open in PDF/A mode, but when I run preflight on them I get this: Preflight errors from Untitled-ps.pdf Syntax problem: Stream dictionary improperly formatted Width information for glyphs is inconsistent (1 match on 1 page) Untitled-pdflatex.pdf Device process color used but no PDF/A OutputIntent (1 match on 1 page) XMP property not predefined and no extension schema present It is possible that Acrobat 9 is broken. When developing software, new versions sometimes introduce bugs that were not there before... >> PS: I'm not sure how the hyperref package could help, as the document >> doesn't have any hyperrefs; even the minimal file I posted earlier >> fails... > > > The hyperref package now has an option which will tag text so that one could > use a PDF/A standard other than PDF/A-1b (which is for untagged text). Right, but if it's unable to generate PDF/A-1b it's quite unlikely that it would be able to generate a PDF/A-1a... > 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
