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PDF/A format

  • February 4, 2022
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arnovananrooij
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Hi, can FME write PDF/a format files? I don't see any options in the Geospatial PDF writer.

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danilo_fme
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  • February 4, 2022

Hi @arnovananrooij​ 

 

Please, could you share a file for test?

 

 

Thanks in Advance,

Danilo


arnovananrooij
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  • February 4, 2022

Hi @arnovananrooij​ 

 

Please, could you share a file for test?

 

 

Thanks in Advance,

Danilo

@danilo_fme​ I don't want to read it, but I need to write it. The archiving system in our organisation only accepts pdf/a compliant pdf's. More information is available on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A. You could use https://demo.verapdf.org/ for validation.


mark2atsafe
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  • February 4, 2022

Unfortunately, this format isn't supported right now, and there are no plans for the immediate future. If you have a good use case for us (i.e. a reason why we should implement it) then you can let us know via either your sales contact at Safe or our support team (safe.com/support). The reference number for the issue is FMEENGINE-36959

I hope this helps and I'm sorry I couldn't provide a definite solution for you.


danilo_fme
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  • February 6, 2022

Unfortunately, this format isn't supported right now, and there are no plans for the immediate future. If you have a good use case for us (i.e. a reason why we should implement it) then you can let us know via either your sales contact at Safe or our support team (safe.com/support). The reference number for the issue is FMEENGINE-36959

I hope this helps and I'm sorry I couldn't provide a definite solution for you.

Thanks @mark2atsafe​ 


redgeographics
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Unfortunately, this format isn't supported right now, and there are no plans for the immediate future. If you have a good use case for us (i.e. a reason why we should implement it) then you can let us know via either your sales contact at Safe or our support team (safe.com/support). The reference number for the issue is FMEENGINE-36959

I hope this helps and I'm sorry I couldn't provide a definite solution for you.

If there's Adobe Acrobat / Distiller (not Acrobat Reader) installed on the same machine presumably it can be run from the command line to post-process the PDFs? I'm trying to find the relevant documentation for that.


arnovananrooij
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  • February 7, 2022

Unfortunately, this format isn't supported right now, and there are no plans for the immediate future. If you have a good use case for us (i.e. a reason why we should implement it) then you can let us know via either your sales contact at Safe or our support team (safe.com/support). The reference number for the issue is FMEENGINE-36959

I hope this helps and I'm sorry I couldn't provide a definite solution for you.

Thank you for your answer Mark. Does anyone have experience with python libraries which can convert Geospatial PDF to PDF/A without loosing information in the map? We don't use attributes. It's just the map (A0) which had to be readable.