[pdftex] PDF/A (was: PDF/X1a)

[David Rendon]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:08 AM, Martin Schröder wrote:

> 2008/3/3, David Rendon <darfguard-latex at yahoo.com>:
>> I'm in a similar situation, where I need to generate PDF/A compliant
>> files. (...). I have no hopes
>> of getting pdftex to generate PDF/A, but I found that Acrobat
>> Professional 8 handles the conversion just fine (unless I need
>> hyperlinks, which I do: that required a small and ugly hack of
>> heperref.sty -- see my message of Jan 30).
>
> PDF/A-1b is doable with 1.40;

Martin, can you elaborate, please?

PDF/A-1b is acceptable for me, but I have never been able to generate  
a PDF file that passes compliance verification by itself. I have  
searched the documentation and this mailing list archive, but I have  
only found dead ends so far.


David Rendon