PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the PDF format specialized for use in the archiving and long-term preservation of electronic documents.
The conformance process ensures that the document can be reproduced the same way using any software in years to come.
A PDF/A compliant document must be 100% self-contained and all information necessary for displaying it in the same manner have to be embedded into the file.
This includes, but is not limited to, text, images, vector graphics, fonts, and color space information.
You can choose between three available levels of conformance, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b. The lowest level, level 1, do support a much-reduced feature set of the PDF file format.
We do recommend that you use conformance level 2 (PDF/A-2b) or higher, as some files may fail to conform to level 1 due to the content of the file.
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