PDF/A with ConTeXt

PDF/A with ConTeXt

[Santy, Michael]

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Records management systems prefer to receive their PDFs compliant with the PDF/A standard (subset of PDF 1.4).  Is there any mechanism in ConTeXt/pdfTex to specify the PDF output should comply with PDF/A?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

Thanks,
Mike

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Re: PDF/A with ConTeXt

[luigi scarso]

> Records management systems prefer to receive their PDFs compliant with the
> PDF/A standard (subset of PDF 1.4).  Is there any mechanism in
> ConTeXt/pdfTex to specify the PDF output should comply with PDF/A?
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

What about postprocessing pdf with latest ghostscript  ?

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Re: PDF/A with ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen]

Santy, Michael wrote:
> Records management systems prefer to receive their PDFs compliant with the PDF/A standard (subset of PDF 1.4).  Is there any mechanism in ConTeXt/pdfTex to specify the PDF output should comply with PDF/A?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

The pdf that pdftex produces is quit esimple and conforms to pdf/x. 
However, includes images as well as using special features can make the 
document less compliant (think of special color spaces, annotations and 
such). Of course we have no control over included images which are black 
boxes to pdftex.

Hans

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Re: PDF/A with ConTeXt

[Santy, Michael]

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Good idea.  I'll take a look.

Thanks,
Mike

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> Records management systems prefer to receive their PDFs compliant with the
> PDF/A standard (subset of PDF 1.4).  Is there any mechanism in
> ConTeXt/pdfTex to specify the PDF output should comply with PDF/A?
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

What about postprocessing pdf with latest ghostscript  ?

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Re: PDF/A with ConTeXt

[Martin Schröder]

2008/2/7, Santy, Michael <Michael.Santy@dynetics.com>:
> Records management systems prefer to receive their PDFs compliant with the
> PDF/A standard (subset of PDF 1.4).  Is there any mechanism in
> ConTeXt/pdfTex to specify the PDF output should comply with PDF/A?

There is no single switch.

PDF/A-1b is doable, -1a probably needs future extensions in the engine
(tagged pdf). Both need other software to check the images.

Best
   Martin

PS: Please wrap your lines.
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