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<document>
  <header>
    <title>PDF/A (ISO 19005)</title>
    <version>$Revision: 389563 $</version>
    <authors>
      <person name="Jeremias Märki" email="jeremias@apache.org"/>
    </authors>
  </header>
  <body>
    <section id="overview">
      <title>Overview</title>
      <warning>
        Support for PDF/A is available beginning with version 0.92.
      </warning>
      <p>
        PDF/A is a standard which turns PDF into an "electronic document file 
        format for long-term preservation". PDF/A-1 is the first part of the 
        standard and is documented in 
        <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=38920&amp;ICS1=37&amp;ICS2=100&amp;ICS3=99">ISO 19005-1:2005(E)</a>. 
        Work on PDF/A-2 is in progress at 
        <a href="http://www.aiim.org/standards.asp?ID=25013">AIIM</a>.
      </p>
      <p>
        Design documentation on PDF/A can be found on FOP's Wiki on the
        <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/PDFA1ConformanceNotes">PDFA1ConformanceNotes</a> page.
      </p>
    </section>
    <section id="status">
      <title>Implementation Status</title>
      <p>
        <strong>PDF/A-1b</strong> is implemented to the degree that FOP supports 
        the creation of the elements described in ISO 19005-1. 
      </p>
      <p>
        There is a restriction with 
        XMP metadata. If an XMP metadata packet is present in the fo:declarations
        element of an FO file, the values from the XMP packet are not synchronized
        with the Info PDF object as is mandated by chapter 6.7.3 of the ISO document.
        However, if no XMP packet is supplied FOP automatically generates an XMP
        packet from the values in the Info PDF object.
      </p>
      <p>
        Tests have been performed against jHove and Adobe Acrobat 7.0.7 (Preflight function).
      </p>
      <p>
        <strong>PDF/A-1a</strong> is not implemented, yet. This is mostly because of the requirement
        for tagged PDF which is not available in FOP, yet.
      </p>
    </section>
    <section id="command-line">
      <title>Usage (command line)</title>
      <p>
        If you specify "-pdfa1b" instead of "-pdf" for the output format on the
        command line, support for PDF/A-1b is activated. If there is a violation of
        one of the validation rules for PDF/A, an error message is presented and the
        processing stops.
      </p>
    </section>
    <section id="embedded">
      <title>Usage (embedded)</title>
      <p>
        When FOP is embedded in another Java application you can set a special option
        on the renderer options in the user agent to activate the PDF/A-1b profile.
        Here's an example:
      </p>
      <source><![CDATA[
FOUserAgent userAgent = fopFactory.newFOUserAgent();
userAgent.getRendererOptions().put("pdf-a-mode", "PDF/A-1b");
Fop fop = fopFactory.newFop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF, userAgent);
[..]]]></source>
      <p>
        If one of the validation rules of PDF/A is violated, an PDFConformanceException
        (descendant of RuntimeException) is thrown.
      </p>
    </section>
    <section id="rules">
      <title>PDF/A in Action</title>
      <p>
        There are a number of things that must be looked after if you activate a PDF/A
        profile. If you receive a PDFConformanceException, have a look at the following
        list (not necessarily comprehensive):
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          Make sure all (!) fonts are embedded. If you use base 14 fonts (like Helvetica)
          you need to obtain a license for them and embed them like any other font.
        </li>
        <li>
          Don't use PDF encryption. PDF/A doesn't allow it.
        </li>
        <li>
          Don't use CMYK images without an ICC color profile. PDF/A doesn't allow mixing
          color spaces and FOP currently only properly supports the sRGB color space. Please
          note that FOP embeds a standard sRGB ICC profile (sRGB IEC61966-2.1) as the 
          primary output intent for the PDF.
        </li>
        <li>
          Don't use non-RGB colors in SVG images. Same issue as with CMYK images.
        </li>
        <li>
          Don't use EPS graphics with fo:external-graphic. Embedding EPS graphics in PDF
          is deprecated since PDF 1.4 and prohibited by PDF/A.
        </li>
        <li>
          PDF is forced to version 1.4 if PDF/A-1 is activated.
        </li>
        <li>
          No filter must be specified explicitely for metadata objects. Metadata must be
          embedded in clear text so non-PDF-aware applications can extract the XMP metadata.
        </li>
      </ul>
    </section>
  </body>
</document>