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about pdf/a... until recently there was not even an easy way to figure out if pdf is really pdf/a; now there is (verapdf) and it's crazy complex piece of softwa
by shp0ngle 3y ago
about pdf/a... until recently there was not even an easy way to figure out if pdf is really pdf/a; now there is (verapdf) and it's crazy complex piece of software
and maybe I'm wrong but the only way to convert arbitrary pdf to pdf/a with open source software is to convert it to postscript and back with ghostscript - which is affero licensed... with all the possible problems it entails. (there is old version that is just gpl, works on most pdfs but is 15 years old or such.)
i needed to deal with pdf/a in a previous job... was not fun.
- account42 3y ago> which is affero licensed... with all the possible problems it entails And what problems are those? Besides making it harder to leech off the community without giving back of course.
- Elzair 3y agoYou could use the pdfium library as an alternative to Ghostscript.
- shp0ngle 3y agoI don't think there is a way to do that with pdfium. I have tried to look at it and failed. Maybe I didn't look hard enough.