On 04/07/2024 04:49, Greg Marks wrote:
$gs -dQUIET -dUseCIEColor -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 -dCompressFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true
-sFONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/ -o new.pdf old.pdf
[...]
The object number and generation number shall be separated
by a single white-space character. The generation number
[...]
The stream keyword shall be followed either by a CARRIAGE RETURN
I expect that pdftk and qpdf have their own serializers. I have no idea
if they can transform a file to a PDF/A compliant document, but they
might use proper separators.
Perhaps LaTeX documents require some tuning (metadata blocks, etc.). If
you use pdflatex then I would try lualatex.
