Is it doable - yes. Is it doable with iText, "out of the box" - no. iText doesn't have a lot of the necessary machinery built it.
Could you build a tool to do the conversion using iText - pretty much. You'd need to learn a LOT about PDF, PDF/A and relevant associated things (like fonts, color management, etc.) So yes, you could certainly do this - just going to require a lot of work. (and be aware, it's usually the little things that will get you, such as CIDToGIDMaps and not the big ones). Leonard On 10/12/11 2:10 PM, "AJ Weber" <awe...@comcast.net> wrote: >I have taken note of the FAQ inserted in the Second Ed of the iText In >Action book about this, but would like to ask and understand the >implications a little better... > >If I wanted to try and automate the conversion of (various versions of) >existing PDF files to PDF/A (level B), shouldn't this be "doable" in an >automated fashion? I can understand the limitations that "Level A" >might pose would probably need additional, manual intervention. But >shouldn't we be able to parse an existing PDF file, strip any/all >javascript, embedded images/video, etc., and read the required fonts and >embed them into an output file to make it compliant? > >I know that might take a few steps to parse the input file to a >legitimate, PDF/A output file, but it seems like there's no roadblock to >doing so with the toolset contained in iText. Just a bit of work. > >What am I missing? What is there that iText "can't do" with regard to >this objective? > >Thanks in advance, >AJ > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a >definitive record of customers, application performance, security >threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes >sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. >http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct >_______________________________________________ >iText-questions mailing list >iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > >iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. >Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a >reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ >Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: >http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
