On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 03:36:17PM GMT, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 01:06:56PM +0000, Ceppo wrote: > > I wrote a report with LaTeX, and afterwards discovered it must be > > PDF/A-compliant - which wasn't. I found the pdfx LaTeX package and followed > > its instructions, thus obtaining a file that should be PDF/A and pdfinfo > > identifies as such, but my employer's upload form thinks isn't [...] > > Uh-oh. We set the standards, but won't tell you what they are.
Well, in fact they did tell - they just did *after* I produced my report. But yes, the workflow is very broken... > Not concrete help, but the Wikipedia [1] makes for an interesting > read (including refs to bunches of test suites you can throw at your > publisher's site to find out where their validator is failing). I read about Isartor Test Suite, but [1] says it checks if the validator accepts non-compliant files, not if it rejects compliant files. > And there seems to be a kind of semi-official validaror, according > to the above ref. I guess you mean veraPDF? [1]: https://pdfa.org/resource/isartor-test-suite/ -- Ceppo
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