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Reference number 12 ( /info/en/?search=PDF/A#cite_note-pdfau-12) is broken and leads to a non-existing page. What is the general approach with broken reference links in articles? 93.82.86.207 ( talk) 19:54, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Could anybody please add a link to a document that is actually PDF/A compatible. Even the White-Paper from the company which earns its money, by telling people how important PDF/A is, and which sells the "desperately" needed Software, even this Document itself does not pass the Preflight test from Acrobat. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.99.112.66 ( talk) 14:02, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
This looks more like a commercial for the standard than a NPOV article. DriveBy27 00:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I understand what the user above is saying, but this page serves as a very good start point for many people researching the only viable electronic archive document standard. The Software support section makes it look like only Adobe and OpenOffice support this standard. The fact is many other products support this ISO standard:
Brandonsturgeon ( talk) 19:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
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are there any (preferablly free) tools that can take a regular pdf as input and produce a pdf/a as output? Plugwash ( talk) 22:59, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
What about standarts PDF/A-2a,2b and 2u that realized in Adobe Acrobat X? -- Panfily was here ( talk) 07:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
The article currently states: "Converting a PDF (up to version 1.4) into a PDF/A-2 usually works as expected, except for problems with glyphs.". Please clarify whether this is a problem only for PDF/A-2. (And if so, then why so.) —DIV ( 120.17.53.130 ( talk) 03:20, 21 February 2019 (UTC))
I think the article would benefit the reader if the Background entry would appear above the Description. Just a thought.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.245.160.114 ( talk) 16:53, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
I have just created an Open Office drawing (ODG file in OOo 3.3.0) containing elements with transparency ("Area"), exported it from OO using the PDF/A1a format option, and printed a hardcopy of the resulting document. In Acrobat the PDF file displays with an information bar stating: "You are viewing this document in PDF/A mode".
Viewing this PDF, both onscreen and as a printed document, shows the areas of transparency rendered correctly. They have printed as transparent (ie not printed) and are invisible onscreen.
The information given under the section of this article entitled: "Drawbacks", would therefore appear to be incorrect or in need of clarification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A#Drawbacks
LookingGlass ( talk) 10:39, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Please add information about the OCR hidden text layer. Does PDF/A have special requirements or restrictions? Are multiple such layers allowed?- 96.233.19.238 ( talk) 14:41, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
The "PDF/A in a Nutshell 2.0" link is dead. Is there a replacement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.172.74.71 ( talk) 14:56, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
It would seem that at least a few of them can be ascribed to restructuring of the pdfa.org website.
Regards,
SB
Please add information to the article to explain what software can open each type of PDF/A file. Are there, for example, disadvantages to using PDF/A-3, for viewers not supporting PDF standard 1.7? If so, mention some common problems that may occur. —DIV ( 120.17.53.130 ( talk) 03:24, 21 February 2019 (UTC))
The article currently states: "PDF/A-1 files will not necessarily conform to PDF/A-2, and PDF/A-2 compliant files will not necessarily conform to PDF/A-1.". It is clear that PDF/A-2 supports "a number of new features" (listed in the article) that are not supported by PDF/A-1, so the second part of the above statement is obvious. However, it would be worth including an example of how a PDF/A-1 file may not conform to PDF/A-2. Maybe something to do with the font embedding? —DIV ( 120.17.53.130 ( talk) 03:28, 21 February 2019 (UTC))
The article currently states: "All [embedded] fonts must [...] be legally embeddable for unlimited, universal rendering.". Please clarify if that is an 'off-line' responsibility of the person attempting to create the PDF/A file, or whether typically the PDF-creating software would perform that check 'automatically' itself, such as by interrogating a database (online or on disk) or interrogating the header of the respective font files. —DIV ( 120.17.53.130 ( talk) 03:33, 21 February 2019 (UTC))
103.161.152.153 ( talk) 13:29, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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Reference number 12 ( /info/en/?search=PDF/A#cite_note-pdfau-12) is broken and leads to a non-existing page. What is the general approach with broken reference links in articles? 93.82.86.207 ( talk) 19:54, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Could anybody please add a link to a document that is actually PDF/A compatible. Even the White-Paper from the company which earns its money, by telling people how important PDF/A is, and which sells the "desperately" needed Software, even this Document itself does not pass the Preflight test from Acrobat. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.99.112.66 ( talk) 14:02, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
This looks more like a commercial for the standard than a NPOV article. DriveBy27 00:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I understand what the user above is saying, but this page serves as a very good start point for many people researching the only viable electronic archive document standard. The Software support section makes it look like only Adobe and OpenOffice support this standard. The fact is many other products support this ISO standard:
Brandonsturgeon ( talk) 19:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
References
are there any (preferablly free) tools that can take a regular pdf as input and produce a pdf/a as output? Plugwash ( talk) 22:59, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
What about standarts PDF/A-2a,2b and 2u that realized in Adobe Acrobat X? -- Panfily was here ( talk) 07:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
The article currently states: "Converting a PDF (up to version 1.4) into a PDF/A-2 usually works as expected, except for problems with glyphs.". Please clarify whether this is a problem only for PDF/A-2. (And if so, then why so.) —DIV ( 120.17.53.130 ( talk) 03:20, 21 February 2019 (UTC))
I think the article would benefit the reader if the Background entry would appear above the Description. Just a thought.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.245.160.114 ( talk) 16:53, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
I have just created an Open Office drawing (ODG file in OOo 3.3.0) containing elements with transparency ("Area"), exported it from OO using the PDF/A1a format option, and printed a hardcopy of the resulting document. In Acrobat the PDF file displays with an information bar stating: "You are viewing this document in PDF/A mode".
Viewing this PDF, both onscreen and as a printed document, shows the areas of transparency rendered correctly. They have printed as transparent (ie not printed) and are invisible onscreen.
The information given under the section of this article entitled: "Drawbacks", would therefore appear to be incorrect or in need of clarification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A#Drawbacks
LookingGlass ( talk) 10:39, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Please add information about the OCR hidden text layer. Does PDF/A have special requirements or restrictions? Are multiple such layers allowed?- 96.233.19.238 ( talk) 14:41, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
The "PDF/A in a Nutshell 2.0" link is dead. Is there a replacement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.172.74.71 ( talk) 14:56, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
It would seem that at least a few of them can be ascribed to restructuring of the pdfa.org website.
Regards,
SB
Please add information to the article to explain what software can open each type of PDF/A file. Are there, for example, disadvantages to using PDF/A-3, for viewers not supporting PDF standard 1.7? If so, mention some common problems that may occur. —DIV ( 120.17.53.130 ( talk) 03:24, 21 February 2019 (UTC))
The article currently states: "PDF/A-1 files will not necessarily conform to PDF/A-2, and PDF/A-2 compliant files will not necessarily conform to PDF/A-1.". It is clear that PDF/A-2 supports "a number of new features" (listed in the article) that are not supported by PDF/A-1, so the second part of the above statement is obvious. However, it would be worth including an example of how a PDF/A-1 file may not conform to PDF/A-2. Maybe something to do with the font embedding? —DIV ( 120.17.53.130 ( talk) 03:28, 21 February 2019 (UTC))
The article currently states: "All [embedded] fonts must [...] be legally embeddable for unlimited, universal rendering.". Please clarify if that is an 'off-line' responsibility of the person attempting to create the PDF/A file, or whether typically the PDF-creating software would perform that check 'automatically' itself, such as by interrogating a database (online or on disk) or interrogating the header of the respective font files. —DIV ( 120.17.53.130 ( talk) 03:33, 21 February 2019 (UTC))
103.161.152.153 ( talk) 13:29, 11 January 2024 (UTC)