I am working on a piece of software that produces PDF documents as end result. PDF documents that customers need to have accessible for a long time due to regulatory needs.
Our problem with PDF/A is that different preflight tools give different results and we therefore find it hard to claim compliance with the standard.
Unfortunately, the ISO PDF/A standard was ambiguous in several parts - particularly the XMP metadata requirements. I have heard the PDF/A Competence Center is working on an extensive PDF/A test suite for preflight programs. This will hopefully avoid the differences in preflight results from the various applications.
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My ISP Bahnhof here in Sweden was ordered the same thing. They decided to block Elsevier web properties as well for good measure.
I am working on a piece of software that produces PDF documents as end result. PDF documents that customers need to have accessible for a long time due to regulatory needs.
Our problem with PDF/A is that different preflight tools give different results and we therefore find it hard to claim compliance with the standard.
Unfortunately, the ISO PDF/A standard was ambiguous in several parts - particularly the XMP metadata requirements. I have heard the PDF/A Competence Center is working on an extensive PDF/A test suite for preflight programs. This will hopefully avoid the differences in preflight results from the various applications.