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August 30, 2010 at 1:14 pm #2197513
How do I convert a file into PDF/A format?
Lockedby n00bst4r23 · about 13 years, 6 months ago
Hi,
we use Adobe Acrobat 8.0 standard at our office. I am wondering how can we convert a particular file into PDF/A format using Adobe Acrobat? What’s the best software to do this
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August 30, 2010 at 1:14 pm #2853690
Clarifications
by n00bst4r23 · about 13 years, 6 months ago
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Clarifications
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August 30, 2010 at 1:19 pm #2853686
Confusing …
by oldbaritone · about 13 years, 6 months ago
In reply to How do I convert a file into PDF/A format?
“how can we convert a particular file into PDF/A format using Adobe Acrobat? What’s the best software to do this”
uhhh… Adobe Acrobat
There are other programs that could do it, but if you have Acrobat, why use anything else?
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August 30, 2010 at 1:52 pm #2853676
Okay…
by n00bst4r23 · about 13 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Confusing …
But that doesn’t still answer the question – how do you use Adobe Acrobat to convert an ordinary Word document into PDF/A file?
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August 30, 2010 at 2:05 pm #2853674
Acrobat
by pshiflet-24 · about 13 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Okay…
Adobe Acrobat should install a PDF printer driver so you can open the Word document, go to file -> print and select the PDF printer/converter. It will then ask for a file location/name to save the output file as. That, in a nut shell, is one way you can convert a file to a pdf. I hope that helps.
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August 30, 2010 at 2:21 pm #2853668
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August 31, 2010 at 5:50 am #2853558
PDF vs PDF/A
by n00bst4r23 · about 13 years, 6 months ago
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Thanks!
I saw that Print2PDF also does the same thing where when you save a file as PDF, it will ask you what profile you want to save it as, and then you can select PDF/A from that profile list. My main questions are:
1) When we convert a file into PDF using Adobe Acrobat (following the instructions posted above), does it save the file in PDF/A format or is it simple PDF?
2) How would I know if a file is in PDF/A format?
3) Whether Adobe Acrobat 8 has the same feature or functionality where it saves file into PDF/A format (or profile).
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August 31, 2010 at 6:20 am #2853542
PDF / A = Acrobat 5 = PDF v1.4
by oldbaritone · about 13 years, 6 months ago
In reply to PDF vs PDF/A
Acrobat 8 will save in PDF 1.7 by default.
Change the option in the Distiller to save in v5 format.
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August 31, 2010 at 6:25 am #2853538
Save as… (interesting details about pdf/a format)
by tobif · about 13 years, 6 months ago
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I just did some reading about pdf/a.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A)
Must admit, I wasn’t aware of the archiving format.
Now, since I don’t have Acrobat handy, I can’t check the details, but it should be able to do this, starting with Acrobat 8.Do “Save As”, and find the format you need.
One particular detail of the pdf archiving format is that it always should include the fonts used in the document.Earlier Acrobat versions can save documents in a format which more or less resemble pdf/a, but they will lack some required metadata.
EditAdd: By the way, the linked page above contains a list of software, capable of converting different files into pdf/a.
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August 31, 2010 at 7:37 am #2852431
PFD/A
by pshiflet-24 · about 13 years, 6 months ago
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Just checked a machine w/ Acrobat 8 to verify a few things. The printer/converter/Distiller is labeled (at least on our machines) as AdobePDF. To convert to a PDF/A instead of a simple PDF when printing to it, select Printing Preferences and modify the output format to PDF/A-1b. I hope that helps.
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August 31, 2010 at 6:06 am #2853549
or simply
by oldbaritone · about 13 years, 6 months ago
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Open Acrobat
File … Create PDF … From File …
and choose the Word document.(Acrobat does its thing)
File … Save As … PDF
and give it a name.
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August 31, 2010 at 5:58 am #2853554
n00bst4r23
by kapil.ahuja · about 13 years, 6 months ago
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you can use cute pdf writer, just download and install
Thanks
Kapil Ahuja-
August 31, 2010 at 6:09 am #2853548
but the question was
by oldbaritone · about 13 years, 6 months ago
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“using Adobe Acrobat.”
Yes, there are many free 3rd-party products. But the original question was specific about using Adobe.
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August 31, 2010 at 9:26 am #2852412
One Last Q.
by n00bst4r23 · about 13 years, 6 months ago
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Thanks everyone for the helpful posts. I now can save a document into PDF/A format.
But one last q. – I saved a word document into PDF/A format and it looks exactly like any ordinary PDF document. Is there a way to tell the difference between standard PDF from PDF/A file?
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August 31, 2010 at 10:05 am #2852408
Identification
by pshiflet-24 · about 13 years, 6 months ago
In reply to One Last Q.
If you open the file in Adobe reader you can go to File, Document Properties and on the description tab it will show as PDF version 1.4 (Acrobat 5.x). That pdf version (1.4) is (essentially) PDF/A. That is one way to identify them.
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September 8, 2011 at 1:37 am #2888864
MS Word 2007 or above
by peterpatrickgo · about 12 years, 6 months ago
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Actually the Acrobat is a little bit complicated for us to manage, if just for creating pdf files, why not just copy the contents in the word 2007 or above to save as PDF format.
And other PDF converters could also help us on such issue, for example, the nitro pdf, nemo pdf.
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