For saving existing Word documents to PDF/A all you need is a recent version of Microsoft Word. For creating from other products that print you can use a free PDF/A creator like the one at If you need to validate that a PDF/A file is compliant, you can use our free service at Converting existing PDF files to PDF/A in a lossless way is a bit more tricky and not always possible.

Acrobat 9 and 10 can do this. Our business, Solid Documents, also sells a product that does this (and other common archiving functions) for $99.

PDF /A is an international ISO standard for archiving PDFs. The standard requests strict compliance to its set of rules (like: 'embed all fonts', 'don't use transparencies', 'don't use JavaScript', 'no encryption'.). There are a lot of PDFs out there which claim to be PDF/A, but fail a real smoke test. That claim is just a tag in the file's metadata. That tag can make f.e. Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Games Iso Ball there.

Acrobat Reader display a special hint when rendering it. A check for real compliancy requires some rather expansive commercial 'preflight' software. Currently I'm not aware of any Free utility to do that job. See also here for some test results:.

The default paged configuration file is named PDFtoXHTML_pages.cfg If a specific. Don Bradman Cricket 14 Pc. Protected PDF. My university requires submitted PDF files to be in PDF/A format. I tried to find a converter. How to convert a PDF to a PDF/A. This sample will not work as.

You can use Ghostscript to (try to) convert PDF to PDF/A. How to do this is ( Update: ). But note: this document was updated only very recently [ *].

Previous versions of Ghostscript's Ps2pdf.htm did mis-lead users to run a command that created PDFs claiming to be PDF/A but which failed real smoke tests. How to convert PDF to PDF/A with Ghostscript: Here is a commandline: gswin32c ^ -dPDFA ^ -dNOOUTERSAVE ^ -dUseCIEColor ^ -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK ^ -sDEVICE=pdfwrite ^ -o output_pdfa.pdf ^ -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 ^ PDFA_def.ps ^ input.pdf [ *] Note: The problem lays with the parameter PDFA_def.ps. This is a file you need to edit to suite your needs. Ghostscript ships with a sample of it in its /lib subdirectory. This sample will not work as-is without you editing it. How to edit is inside the sample's comments. Microsoft Office 2007's ' tool saves in PDF/A format.