Ernesto Posse <eposse <at> cs.queensu.ca> writes: > > 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. > Thanks. I do have access to Distiller (and in fact the free software PDFCreator works as well), but those will produce PDF/A files which do not retain any of the hyperref features!
I'll see if i can get the mcgill hack to work. The university is adamant about only accepting pdf/a.
