Pdf/a-1b Validation problems

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Hi,

i hope this topic is not already covered..i didn't find an actual entry for this problem:

we are using your PDF creator for many years and we almost never had troubles.

We use the creator to produce pdf/a-1b (ISO 19005-1 level B conformance) pdf-files which are afterwards stored in archives from local authorities. These archives use validation to verify if the ISO standard is fulfilled. Since a few weeks a new validator is used at the archive (3Heights Validator) http://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf/pdfa-online-pruefen.aspx to check against the ISO standard. Every document that we create with pdfcreator 1.4.3 as an pdf/a-1b is negatively validated at the validator. It says:

Validating file "Ver14.pdf" for conformance level pdfa-1b
Wrong namespace '(null)' for value type 'ResourceEvent'. The required namespace is 'http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#'.
The value of the key N is 4 but must be 3.
The document does not conform to the requested standard.
The document doesn't conform to the PDF reference (missing required entries, wrong value types, etc.).
The document's meta data is either missing or inconsistent or corrupt.

Also checking the documents at http://www.intarsys.de/pdfa-check is negative. It says that CMap has inkonsistant WMode Values. It also says that the PDFA Ouputintent is errorneous.

 

Is it possible that pdfcreator produces non ISO conform pdf/a-1b files? Is there any workaround to solve the problem?

Thank you in advance for your suggestions and comments.

Ciao Lothar

 

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We have exactly the same problem. We get the same message from the validator of the archive we have to use. The support team of the archive told me to replace PDFCreator with other software. The support team says that the history in the document is not accepted by the validator. ("Diese Meldung kommt, da der PDF-Creator eine History in der Datei anlegt, welche vom Validator aber abgelehnt wird. Vom PDF-Creator ist bekannt, dass er nur bedingt brauchbare PDF/A1-b-Dateien liefert.") We have been using PDFCreator for years. I hope for a solution to this problem, because I would only reluctantly replace it with other software. Jens

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We have exactly the same problem. We get the same message from the validator of the archive we have to use. The support team of the archive told me to replace PDFCreator with other software. The support team says that the history in the document is not accepted by the validator. ("Diese Meldung kommt, da der PDF-Creator eine History in der Datei anlegt, welche vom Validator aber abgelehnt wird. Vom PDF-Creator ist bekannt, dass er nur bedingt brauchbare PDF/A1-b-Dateien liefert.") We have been using PDFCreator for years. I hope for a solution to this problem, because I would only reluctantly replace it with other software. Jens

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Hi,

 

sorry your post got caught up by our spam filter accidentally.

We will look into this issue.

 

regards,

 

Robin