PDF/A with hyperref on TeX Live 2013

Question

I am trying to make PDF/A from LaTeX (not from LuaTeX etc.) with TeX Live 2013 on Fedora Linux. This works:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

What cat says? \label{meow}

See question on page \pageref{meow}.

\end{document}

With commands latex, dvips and last

gs -dPDFA -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOOUTERSAVE -dUseCIEColor
-sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-sOutputFile=meow.pdf meow.ps

Now, when I add \usepackage[pdfa]{hyperref} I got validation errors like

dc:description :: Wrong value type. Expected type 'lang alt'.
The XMP property 'dc:title' is not synchronized with the document
information entry 'Title'.
A device-specific color space (Annotation C or IC) without an
appropriate output intent is used.

Documentation of hyperref says

-- result is usually not in PDF/A, because many features aren't controlled by hyperref --

but how to control those?

Should I even try this path? There are alternatives like pdfx. Which path to use?

Answer 1

1. Put the color profile eciRGB_v2.icc in the working directory.
2. Add the flowing code to your preamble:

    \usepackage{hyperxmp}
    \usepackage[pdfa, linktoc=none]{hyperref}

    % ===============================
    % Embedding the color profile.
    % Requires eciRGB_v2.icc in the working directory
    % http://www.eci.org/_media/downloads/icc_profiles_from_eci/ecirgbv20.zip
    \immediate\pdfobj stream attr{/N 3}  file{eciRGB_v2.icc}
    \pdfcatalog{%
        /OutputIntents [ <<
            /Type /OutputIntent
            /S/GTS_PDFA1
            /DestOutputProfile \the\pdflastobj\space 0 R
            /OutputConditionIdentifier (eciRGB v2)
            /Info(eciRGB v2)
        >> ]
    }

3. Add metadata with hyperxmp and \hypersetup:

   \title{Title}
   \author{First Author, Last Author}
   \hypersetup{%
                pdfauthortitle={Title of the Author},
                pdfcopyright={Copyright (C) 20xx, Copyrightholder},
                pdfsubject={Something},
                pdfkeywords={Keyword1, Keyword2},
                pdflicenseurl={http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/},
                pdfcaptionwriter={Scott Pakin},
                pdfcontactaddress={Street},
                pdfcontactcity={City},
                pdfcontactpostcode={101},
                pdfcontactcountry={Country},
                pdfcontactemail={[email protected]},
                pdfcontacturl={http://www.institute.edu},
                pdflang={en},
                bookmarksopen=true,
                bookmarksopenlevel=3,
                hypertexnames=false,
                linktocpage=true,
                plainpages=false,
                breaklinks
            }
   

Everything put together results in a document like this:

    % ===============================
    % Filename: test.tex

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{hyperxmp}
    \usepackage[pdfa, linktoc=none]{hyperref}

    % ===============================
    % Embedding the color profile.
    % Requires eciRGB_v2.icc in the working directory
    % http://www.eci.org/_media/downloads/icc_profiles_from_eci/ecirgbv20.zip
    \immediate\pdfobj stream attr{/N 3}  file{eciRGB_v2.icc}
    \pdfcatalog{%
        /OutputIntents [ <<
            /Type /OutputIntent
            /S/GTS_PDFA1
            /DestOutputProfile \the\pdflastobj\space 0 R
            /OutputConditionIdentifier (eciRGB v2)
            /Info(eciRGB v2)
        >> ]
    }

    % ----------------------------------------------
    % Add metadata
    \title{Title}
    \author{First Author, Last Author}
    \hypersetup{%
                 pdfauthortitle={Title of the Author},
                 pdfcopyright={Copyright (C) 20xx, Copyrightholder},
                 pdfsubject={Something},
                 pdfkeywords={Keyword1, Keyword2},
                 pdflicenseurl={http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/},
                 pdfcaptionwriter={Scott Pakin},
                 pdfcontactaddress={Street},
                 pdfcontactcity={City},
                 pdfcontactpostcode={101},
                 pdfcontactcountry={Country},
                 pdfcontactemail={[email protected]},
                 pdfcontacturl={http://www.institute.edu},
                 pdflang={en},
                 bookmarksopen=true,
                 bookmarksopenlevel=3,
                 hypertexnames=false,
                 linktocpage=true,
                 plainpages=false,
                 breaklinks
             }

    \begin{document}
    What cat says? \label{meow}
    See question on page \pageref{meow}.
    \end{document}

Which is PDF/A-1b compliant:

Update: Since the original answer, things have changed several times. For a while luatex85 had to be loaded but today it would break compilation. But it's also not needed anymore. The packages have to be loaded before setting the OutputIntent today.

This works only with pdfLaTeX, LuaHBTeX and LuaLaTeX.