Several years ago I had to go through the same thing and it was painful. In the end, after asking around and insisting a bit, they accepted a normal PDF if the thesis was generated with latex (they somehow strangely assumed that everyone used MSWord). You might want to ask in your university about this.
However there are tools out there to do this. The script in the following link might work http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kwysoc/hacks/#ps2pdfa ...but I haven't tried it. What will work is to use Acrobat Pro/Distiller (not the free version). Unfortunately those are *not* free tools. Good luck. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:35 PM, mendy wenger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > My university requires PDF/A format for thesis submissions. I have to submit > by tomorrow but unfortunately, it is turning out to be very difficult for me > to produce a PDF/A file in Lyx. > Does anyone know how to do so? > > I am able to convert my PDF file to PDF/A by using Adobe, but then I lose > the hyperref features such as bookmarks and linked citations. > > Within Lyx, I tried using xmpincl package but get an error such as: > ! Undefined control sequence. > > \xmpinclReadln -><pdf:Producer>\xmpProducer > > </pdf:Producer> > > l.55 \includexmp{pdfa-1b} > > > I've also tried using the pdfx package, but then I get an error about: > ! pdfTeX error (ext5): cannot open file for embedding. > > l.137 ...eam attr{/N 4} file{sRGBIEC1966-2.1.icm} > > > even though I have placed that file in the folder. > > > Thanks, > > Mendy > > -- Ernesto Posse Modelling and Analysis in Software Engineering School of Computing Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada
