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#1
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 6:53:01 PM(UTC)
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Hi,
I would like to know if Lead does support or intends to support the PDF/A standard and if so at what compliance level, a or b.
I have looked through the documentation and searched the forums and I can only find a post from a year ago about PDF/A that states that states that the user should test to see if the PDF output from the Lead module meets the criteria. A bit of a cop out.
Can someone at Lead provide me with more details. We have been a Lead shop since 10 and it would be nice to know where Lead stands on this as it is becoming more and more important for document archival projects.
Regards.
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Thursday, March 6, 2008 1:07:14 AM(UTC)
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I'm
afraid the answer will not change much this time. We do not document or
advertise that our toolkit specifically conforms to the PDF/A standard.
However,
this does not mean the PDF files saved with LEADTOOLS do not meet the standard.
I think PDF/A actually restricts some aspects of the common PDF format, and
adds nothing new (or very little) to it. Since the files saved by our raster
PDF Plug-in contain only raster (bitmap) images, it would be hard to imagine
that PDF/A does not allow these types of images.
Even if
some types of image compression are not allowed by PDF/A, you can choose other
compression types when saving a PDF file using LEADTOOLS.
This
means if you find any part of our PDF support preventing you from creating an
application that complies to the PDF/A standard, send us the details and we
will submit a feature request or bug report to our engineers.
#3
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Thursday, March 6, 2008 4:35:28 PM(UTC)
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Thanks for your response.
I agree that it is unlikely that a pure raster image within a PDF wrapper is likely to fail the PDF/A requirements. I should have been a bit clearer. It is with respect to two aspects that I was interested in. The first are the attributes that are required to be compliant. The second is that I was looking more at image and text where there are requirements for imbedding all the fonts inside the PDF file are mandatory.
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Sunday, March 9, 2008 6:51:34 AM(UTC)
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I'm
afraid we don't have the PDF/A requirements, and our file format functions
cannot be used to examine compliance. Also, both our Raster PDF plug-in and
Advanced PDF compressor do not include any text objects, and do not embed any
font information into PDF files.
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Monday, September 8, 2008 2:08:23 AM(UTC)
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Our engineers have added PDF/A support to LEADTOOLS toolkit. It will be available in LEADTOOLS v16.
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