PDF ZugFerd

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Wie ist erstellt man mit Adobe Professional ein PDF im ZugFerd-Format?

Vielen Dank im Voraus.

[d.hoepfner]

Hallo Adobe!

Warum wurde diese Frage noch nicht beantwortet?

Das ZugFerd-Format für digitale Rechnungen wird in den nächsten Monaten ein zentrales Thema für viele Unternehmen (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZUGFeRD). Warum gibt es hier kein einfaches Speicherformat wie für viele andere Standards der Print-Industrie? Oder wurde das Problem längst gelöst? Warum überläßt man das Thema den vielen unprofessionelleren Drittanbietern? Vielen Dank für ein Feedback.

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

ZUGFeRD-compliant digital invoices are readily created in Acrobat. They really are nothing more than PDF/A-3b files of a human-readable invoice with an XML-based machine readable attachment of the invoice's details compliant with the ZUGFeRD standard.

Creating the XML-based digital invoice is clearly an enterprise accounting processing function that you really would not expect to be an Adobe product and if one is dealing with creation of many such ZUGFeRD invoices, what you really need is an application interfacing between an organzation's accounting software and a PDF library to create such ZUGFeRD PDF files in an automated, batch manner.

[Lourenz]

Das funktioniert leider nicht

Können Sie bitte den genauen Weg beschreiben, wie man das PDF bearbeiten und abspeichern muss, um eine ZUGFeRD Rechnung zu generieren?

[Bernd Alheit]

e.g. SAP supports this format.

[d.hoepfner]

Hi Dov,

thank you very much for your fast response. Creating digital invoices like ZUGFeRD invoices are already today a task for small enterprises or even freelancers working for companies with a digital accounting. As licensed user of the best high professional PDF solution Adobe Acrobat I would assume, that this demand is an easy one for Adobe. Especially users who have no accounting software and no need for automated batches want to trust Adobe as provider of interchangeable file that meet the best industry standards.

For my technical understanding: Is a PDF saved in PDF/A-3b format already a ZUGFerd document or does it need another step to integrate XML information? Many thanks for the support.
Best regards, Daniel

[Dov Isaacs]

You do need to create and attach the XML file. Clearly, Adobe isn't in the accounting software business; you would need a separate application to do that. PDF/A-3b files are not ZUGFeRD files, but typically ZUGFeRD files are or should be PDF/A-3b-compliant. You could conceivably write some Javascript to embed the XML files into PDF files and/or use Adobe's (or third party) PDF libraries to create both the textual portion of the PDF file and attach the XML.

Alternatively, as pointed out by Bernd_Alheit above, SAP does provide a ZUGFeRD output option. Other accounting software providers (primarily in Europe I would assume) likely also provide such an option.