On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote:
No, it still doesn't work (either through pdflatex or dvips + ps2pdf
or dvips + distiller).
Did you use the PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK) setting in Acrobat Distiller? I
tried this w/ a .ps from dvips and it opened in PDF/A mode.
If I follow your instructions literally, using pdflatex, opening in
Acrobat and saving as PDF/A, Acrobat complains and tells me to use
preflight first.
It shouldn't. You should save as PDF/A-1b, quit, then re-open the
document. This should open it in PDF/A mode.
I do so, but this time (from the pdflatex generated
file) I get a different error: "XMP property neither predefine nor
defined in extension schema".
Strange. Can't find that error anywhere (even after adding the ``d''
after predefine).
Could it be a problem with this version of Acrobat, maybe? (I'm using
Acrobat 9 Pro on Vista + MiKTeK 2.6)
Well, your minimal example works w/ Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional on
Mac OS X Leopard using MacTeX.
I seem to recall your having mentioned files created by Adobe Acrobat
not working either --- perhaps the problem is in your Acrobat
installation?
Have you tried d/l'ing a PDF/A document from somewhere and testing it?
I directly sent you files which I made w/ dvips/Acrobat and pdflatex
--- if they don't read as PDF/A on your Acrobat, it's broken.
PS: I'm not sure how the hyperref package could help, as the document
doesn't have any hyperrefs; even the minimal file I posted earlier
fails...
The hyperref package now has an option which will tag text so that one
could use a PDF/A standard other than PDF/A-1b (which is for untagged
text).
William
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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
