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Panalpina
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March 21, 2017
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What is exactly meant by "Verify Compliance with PDF/A-1b" or any other Compliance verification?

  • March 21, 2017
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Dear Team,

I could not find any other category where i could ask for this...

if I take any Document i.e from Word (2013) with the Acrobat Pro DC plugin and select to create a simple PDF Without any special conversion to PDF/A or any other format. And after checking with Tools / Print Production / Preflight / Verify Compliance with PDF/A-1b that converted "Normal" PDF i got as result below Print-Screen:

What does this mean? It's not a PDF/A document at all !...

이 주제는 답변이 닫혔습니다.

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Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
March 22, 2017

Actually, if the preflight Verify compliance with PDF/A-1b profile provides what you have displayed, the PDF file was indeed created as a PDF/A-1b file. You must have unconsciously selected the PDF/A option in PDFMaker when you created the PDF file. Otherwise, you would not have had these results.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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Legend
March 21, 2017

I can part understand this, part not.

PDF/A is not a different kind of PDF, made in a different way. Mostly, it is a list of "forbidden things" in PDF. For example a PDF/A file may not contain a movie. So your PDF can easily be a valid PDF/A, almost, with no special rules. Some kinds of PDF/A file require valid tagging; this is not a different kind of tagging, but most PDF creators won't do this.

BUT, a PDF/A file also contains a special marker, that just says "I am a PDF/A- file of this type". I do not understand how it can pass this test, if it is not a PDF/A file, but maybe the test is for EVERYTHING ELSE; you can now convert to PDF/A in confidence.

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