On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > > i am still not seeing "you have a mac and use all the usual stuff that > produces pdf. to convert that pdf to pdf/a for archival purposes, use > the following app: <https://foo.bar/>." > > randy, playing end user
I haven't researched the PDF -> PDF/A route yet. It's possible that some information is lost in the PDF generation step making it harder to translate from PDF -> PDF/A (a trivial example is a PDF in which a non-standard font is used but not embedded). -- Proprietary -- It looks like Adobe Distiller (part of Acrobat) might be able to turn PDF -> PDF/A (especially if you're doing all of this work on the same system). -- FOSS -- If your source document can be read by LibreOffice, use it to generate PDF/As. That's the simplest FOSS tool I've used so far. For those willing to roll their sleeves up a little bit, there's always ghostscript on the command line. If we take a look at ghostscript, we find this useful information (http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm#PDFA). "To create a PDF/A document, please follow instructions about creating a PDF/X-3 document, with the following exceptions..." So the docs at least say that it's possible. For people who don't want to wrangle on the command-line, there is a print driver. CUPS-PDF is designed to make it easier for people to print to pdf on OSX (http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007082812233971) Apparently on OSX, CUPS-PDF uses ps2pdf. I don't have an OSX system nearby for testing and tweaking, but with a little work, I assume that one could massage the install process a little bit and make it possible for a user to simply print to "Local PDF/A Printer" from an application, and have a nicely compliant PDF/A pdf spit out the other end. -- Robinson _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
