PDF/A in a Nutshell

Olaf Drümmer, Alexandra Oettler, Dietrich von Seggern

PDF/A in a Nutshell Long Term Archiving with PDF

PDF/A in a Nutshell: Long term archiving with PDF - written with the aim of converting the very formal ISO standard into a form that is easily understood and enhanced with practical examples. Since PDF/A resolves a lot of the critical problems that users have, the PDF/A Competence Center was formed as an association with the aim of providing information over PDF/A, promoting the distribution of the standard, and acting as a central point of contact for your questions dealing with PDF/A. We hope that this booklet gives you a good overview and introduction to PDF/A, and also helps as a motivator for implementing the standard.


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Table of Contents

  • Durable documents with the PDF/A standard
    • Open files are not always complete
    • PDF data containers
    • How to create archive PDFs
    • Table: Comparison between PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b
    • Overview: Which file formats are suitable for archiving?
    • Is XPS an alternative to PDF/A?
  • PDF/A creation: Analog, digital, and mass processing
    • PDF/A from scanned documents
    • The Distiller engine
    • Office and administration
    • PDF/A ‘en masse’
  • From PDF to PDF/A: Converting PDFs to archive PDFs
    • PDF/A generation with Preflight
    • Converting PDF to PDF/A with pdfaPilot
  • Archive PDFs in everyday life: What issues might arise?
    • Images
    • Transparency
    • Colors
    • Fonts
    • Metadata
    • Accessibility
    • Interactive PDF files
    • PDF/A for design drawings
    • Electronic signatures
  • The outlook: PDF/A in the future
    • Enhancements in PDF/A-2
  • What the error messages mean
    • Preflight results and troubleshooting for PDF/A
  • Glossary
    • Explanation of terms relating to PDF/A

The authors

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