Questions tagged [pdf-a]
{pdf-a} is about the PDF/A file format, an ISO-standardized version of PDF ({pdf}) specialized for the digital preservation of electronic documents (the "A" stands for "Archive").
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latex verapdf dictionary stream contains duplicated key /Group
I know, I shall add a minimal working example, and i am willing to do so, but could you give me a first hint? I compile a quite complicated document with lualatex, texlive 2025 After I verify on PDF/A ...
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How to include in main document an external PDF that has no embed fonts and preserving PDF/A compliance?
I want to include a plot from an article published on arXiv about ResNet (download src from here). Adding teaser.pdf to my document, it is no more in compliance with PDF/A-3b. Checking document with ...
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How to produce a PDF in compliance with PDF/A using `\DocumentMetadata` without tagging?
I completed a Beamer presentation and now I want to produce a PDF in compliance with PDF/A-3B. IMO Universal Accessibility is not useful for a presentation. For this type of task, I always used pdfx. ...
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Pdf/A with tabularray
I need to export my thesis in PDF/A from OverLeaf and I have just found out that it does not work using \usepackage[a-2u]{pdfx} while I use \usepackage{tabularray}. I have many tables using that. Is ...
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Creating standards compliant PDF-A with lualatex and cmyk colors
I'm trying to create a PDF-A file which passes verapdf validation. But as soon as I add a cmyk color it fails. MWE: \DocumentMetadata{ pdfstandard=A-4F, pdfversion=2.0, colorprofiles = {A = sRGB....
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Creating a PDF/A and PDF/X multistandard compliant document with scrbook and LuaLaTeX
I'm trying to create a PDF that is PDF/A- and PDF/X-compliant at the same time with LuaLaTeX and documentclass scrbook in different flavors. So far, I found some working code. This MWE helped me ...
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Are tikz and pgf designed to be pdf/a compliant? Good for Production Quality Scientific Data Graphing?
Related to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76011224/is-there-an-r-4-2-1-pdf-a-compliant-pdf-output-device . Apparently, R can output to a Ti*k*Z device (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/...
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charter [mathdesign] pdf/a failure glyph width consistency failure
2023 texlive. A simple pdf file fails a veraPDF validation. This in itself would not be so bad, except kdp now suddenly no longer accepts my pdf. could be this, could be some images, don't know yet....
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Benefit of PDF-A on ArXiv?
I am wondering if it is beneficial to include \usepackage[a-1b]{pdfx} to the preamble when submitting articles to ArXiv? And if so, why is this not the standard - is there any disadvantage of PDF-As?
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LaTeX and PDF/A-4
Is there any way to generate a PDF/A-4 document using pdflatex? I tried the following: \DocumentMetadata{pdfversion=2.0, pdfstandard=A-4} \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \...
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pdfpages include breaks PDF/A compatibility
I have an issue where including a normal pdf makes my document fail to be pdf/a compliant, because of the font includes. My template uses pdfx for pdf/a compatibility, I'm using pdfpages to include ...
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Important improvements of LaTeX over the last ten years (2013-2022)
We haven't had this question since many years (2016, 2014, 2010), but especially the question from 2014 has been viewed for more than 50k times, so it seems we should provide an up-to-date answer once ...
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Creating a PDF/A file with a pounds symbol in it
I am currently trying to compile a TeX file as a PDF/A document using \usepackage[a-1b]{pdfx}. However, I have included the \pounds symbol therein, which produces the following error: LaTeX Error: ...
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How to produce PDF/A and PDF/X in 2022?
As many of us know, there exists a package, called pdfx, originally codeveloped by Hàn Thế Thành, which is supposed to be able to produce PDFs satisfying the PDF/X or PDF/A standards. However, it has ...
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Cannot convert PDF output to PDF-A standard
I am about to submit my PhD thesis but I cannot convert the PDF output generated by Overleaf (using the premium version) into the proper PDF-A standard. The document is more than 400 pages long, and I ...
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