Hello Olaf, 

Thanks for the quick and detailed response.

About the metadata, I am using the createpdfaidentificationschema() and just 
setting the type and part.

Is it mandatory to use document information while using any schema?

I will try download and load the fonts.

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> On Oct 8, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Olaf Drümmer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Augustine,
> 
>> 1. Metadata does not conform to XMP
> 
> PDF/A-1b does not require the presence of any metadata at all. Nevertheless, 
> if metadata is present, it must be present as XMP metadata. By implication: 
> if the document Info entry for example contains the Title or Author fields, 
> these fields must also be reflected in matching XMP metadata fields, e.g. 
> dc:title (where dc is the recommended prefix for metadata fields according to 
> the Dublin Core metadata standard). For metadata fields that are expressed 
> using non-standard metadata schemas (e.g. a company specific metadata 
> schema), an "extension schema description" must also be embedded in the XMP 
> metadata stream.
> 
> To get started I would try to create a PDF with just one metadata field, and 
> try to get that right. Depending on where you get stuck, please report back… 
> 
> 
>> 2. Font not embedded(and text rendering mode not 3)
> 
> using the so called standard 14 fonts (without embedding them) is not an 
> option in PDF/A - even not for very simple ext centric documents like log 
> files. PDF/A reqires that alll fonts used are embedded (except for fonts used 
> in invisible text mode / text rendering mode 3). If font embedding is done 
> right, the fonts do not really need a lot of space.
> 
> 
> Olaf
> 
> 
>> On 08.10.2015, at 16:24, titto agustine <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello ,
>> 
>> I am creating a PDFA/1B document using PDFBOX. But the valiation to PDFA/1B 
>> standard is failing and showing below erro messages in
>> 
>> Adobe prob Preflight.
>> 
>> 1. Metadata does not conform to XMP
>> 2. Font not embedded(and text rendering mode not 3)
>> 
>> 
>> I have two questions
>> 
>> 1. what is the minimum meta data set requirement for passing the validation.
>> 2. Does the usage of base fonts classify for PDFA/1B standard or we need to 
>> embbed it? (The size goes too big as this is done for archiving a log files)
>> 
>> Can I refere some sample how this meta data and font encoding done?
>> 
>> Appreciate a response.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Augustine
> 
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