what does this mean

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March 20, 2018
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what does PDF/A compliance mean??...i keep getting this prompt when i edit and dont want it anymore

thanks very much

Craig

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

PDF/A is an ISO PDF subset standard for documents meant for archiving. As such, PDF/A files are not supposed to be edited per the PDF/A standard.

By default, Acrobat will warn you about this and remove the PDF/A compliance metadata from your file if you edit the file in any way. This is intentional.

However, you can (at your own risk) turn off this behaviour. Open Acrobat's Preferences and access the Documents tab. Under PDF/A View Mode, change the value to Only for PDF/A documents to Never. This will turn off the message and result in the possibility that what was once a fully-compliant PDF/A file is no longer so based on what and how you did edits.

We don't recommend that you do this.

- Dov

Dov IsaacsCorrect answer

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PDF/A is an ISO PDF subset standard for documents meant for archiving. As such, PDF/A files are not supposed to be edited per the PDF/A standard.

By default, Acrobat will warn you about this and remove the PDF/A compliance metadata from your file if you edit the file in any way. This is intentional.

However, you can (at your own risk) turn off this behaviour. Open Acrobat's Preferences and access the Documents tab. Under PDF/A View Mode, change the value to Only for PDF/A documents to Never. This will turn off the message and result in the possibility that what was once a fully-compliant PDF/A file is no longer so based on what and how you did edits.

We don't recommend that you do this.

- Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)