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Thanks for the ideas! The downloaded PDFs are not in a PDF/A format. I understand the need for a feature like this - I have used some government services that o
by mariusz331 9y ago
Thanks for the ideas! The downloaded PDFs are not in a PDF/A format. I understand the need for a feature like this - I have used some government services that only allow submitted PDFs in archivable format. The commercial PDF->PDF/A libraries I came across are pretty pricey. Do you know of any open source alternatives?
- phonon 9y agohttps://github.com/veraPDF/ https://github.com/veraPDF/ has some tools
- cmurf 9y agoI don't. If they don't exist or aren't really good (fast, well documented, good APIs, bindings available for various languages) then I think that's something that needs to be pitched to hand waive. Maybe the Free Software Foundation has ideas, or the Document Foundation, and then also various governments. That so many governments use, and insist their citizens use PDFs, it's really not OK for us to have to depend on proprietary closed source software. I have zero problem with making a profit on great tools and infrastructure and services, but the foundation needs to be owned by the public.
- cetra3 9y agoPDFBox from Apache has this: https://pdfbox.apache.org/1.8/cookbook/pdfacreation.html https://pdfbox.apache.org/1.8/cookbook/pdfacreation.html