<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Somebody on this list included in an answer to somebody else’s question the recommendation to use<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>\usepackage[a-2u]{pdfx}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">along with (i) a corresponding \jobname.xmpdata file; (ii) appropriate \hyperrefsetup options, including I believe pdfa (which may be redundant); and</div><div class="">(iii) \pdfglyphtounicode commands to permit validation of math font characters.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That works to allow PDF validation of the pdflatex output, at least in some circumstances.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An alternative would be to use the hyperxmp package along with (i) a suitable \jobname metadata.xmp file and (ii) appropriate \hyperrefsetup options, including:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>pdfapart=2,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>pdfaconformance=u,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But to my consternation, this alternative method does NOT validation for the math fonts in the way.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any idea how to make tis alternative way work?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please see the example that I posted at <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/551233/validate-pdf-with-and-without-pdfx" class="">https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/551233/validate-pdf-with-and-without-pdfx</a> (along with the “related” links I included there).<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>\usep<span class="kwd" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; white-space: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(138, 74, 11);">ackage</span><span class="pun" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; white-space: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(159, 57, 61);">[</span><span class="pln" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; white-space: inherit; color: var(--black-750); font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;">a-2u</span><span class="pun" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; white-space: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(159, 57, 61);">]{</span><span class="pln" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; white-space: inherit; color: var(--black-750); font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;">pdfx</span><span class="pun" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; white-space: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(159, 57, 61);">}</span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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