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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How can I achieve a PDF/A compliant output with \Big[ in fourier font?

I'm trying to make my pdf validate against PDF/A 1-b with verapdf. For the MWE \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{fourier} \usepackage[a-1b]{...
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Command \noboundary unavailable in encoding LGR (TeX Live 2017)

This problem started appearing for me in TeX Live 2017: ! LaTeX Error: Command \noboundary unavailable in encoding LGR. The file still compiles and the PDF looks as expected, except regular sigmas ...
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PDF/A-3b with attachments: how to create an /AF entry at pdf catalog?

I'm trying to produce a PDF/A-3b file with pdflatex. Everything is fine with fonts, colors, links... But I'm not able to create the /AF entry at Document Catalog. I know I can start by \pdfcatalog ...
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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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Embed Arial font in a PDF/A-friendly way

Due to external requirements, I have to use Arial and Arial Bold in certain parts of my LaTeX document. At the same time, the document has to meet the PDF/A-2 standard. I have tried several ways to ...
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PDF/A: How to spot the missing glyph?

I am trying to have my rendered PDF validate as PDF/A. It fails with the error message that The glyph for character 0 in font ... is missing. Visually inspecting the document, I find no obvious ...
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How to generate valid PDF/A file using kpfonts?

MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{kpfonts} \usepackage[a-1b]{pdfx} \usepackage{mwe} \begin{document} \sffamily\scshape% \blindtext% \...
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Invalid PDF/A-1B with Charter-BT (Bitstream Charter) and Mathdesign

My PDF-As created with pdflatex using the Mathdesign / Charter BT (Bitstream Charter) fonts fail validation with VeraPDF. This minimal example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[a-1b]{pdfx} \...
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Creating a decent PDF/A document

Let's say I have a simple document having some sections and Unicode and/or math in their titles. How to produce a decent PDF output? By that I mean: It contains correct metadata. It contains correct ...
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Embedded widths for the font 'EYRMSN+CMMI12' inconsistent with font dictionary

I want to make my document compatible with the standard PDF/A 1b. Using an online validator for PDF/A 1b, I got just one warning and two errors. <problem severity="warning" objectID="935" clause="...
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Unable to generate PDF/A with `marvosym` package

I am unable to generate a PDF file that is compliant to PDF/A (version 1b) when using fonts of the marvosym package. A minimal working example is the following: \documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage{...
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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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PDF/A-1b: Bibliography: width information for rendered glyphs is inconsistent

The goal is to create a PDF/a-1b compliant document. The document contains more that 100 pages with tens of formulae, tables and figures. The problem is the following error that occurs several times ...
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Producing PDF/A compliant illustrations

I'm trying to produce a PDF/A-compliant thesis which containts several illustrations made with inkscape and exported to pdf. When I check the output with veraPDF, it keeps complaining that my images ...
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Cyrillic font in PDF/A-2u compliant file

I use Cyrillic characters from Kazakh language(Ә, Ғ, Қ, Ң, Ө, Ұ, Ү, Һ, I) in my thesis, and I need it to be PDF/A-2u compliant. Now I use this code in my .tex file %% Generate PDF/A-2u \usepackage[a-...
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verapdf PDF/A-1B validation errors

I am trying to prepare my thesis for publication and one the requirements is to generate a PDF/A-1B compatible file out of it. I am using verapdf software to validate my final PDF file and got these ...
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Unable to write greek with package pdfx

I want to use package pdfx in order to produce a PDF-A document, but as soon as I load the package I can't write greek anymore because I'm getting the following error: ! Package inputenc Error: ...
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Multiline URL break in PDF to PDF/A conversion

I need to convert PDF output of latex to PDFA. The problem is that in references, where url is more than one line, the converted url only contains the first line. For example http://tex....
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