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Posted: **Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:21 pm**

Hello ORPALIS-Team,

like written in a parallel post, I gladly updated to V14.1.59 because you announced the solution for some PDF/A conversion problems I encountered the last weeks before.
I did post an example there, showing the the problems still persists, especially when the source contains form like shapes and trying to convert them to vector based PDF/A-1b.

But since we could produce MRC-compressed PDF-files, when using "RenderPageToGdPictureImage", we didn't care very much about this problem and built a new version of our software with v14.1.59 and set it to production two days ago.

Today we realized, that our customers rejected many thousand files the last 2 days, because the documents weren't in proper PDF/A-1b Format.

We tested then, the functionality of with different parameters.

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        oGdPicturePdf.LoadFromFile(SourceNamePDF, False)
        oGdPicturePdf.ConvertToPDFA(DestNamePDF & ".pdf", PdfConversionConformance.PDF_A_1b, True, True)
        oGdPicturePdf.CloseDocument()

We also tested the "classic" way:

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                    status = oGdPicturePdf.NewPDF(PdfConformance.PDF_A_1b)
                                        For page = 1 To PageCount
                        urGdPicturePdf.SelectPage(page)
                                ImageID = urGdPicturePdf.RenderPageToGdPictureImage(200, True)
                                Next
                        status = oGdPicturePdf.SaveToFile(DestNamePDF, True)

But neither v14.1.59 nor v14.1.60 produces PDF/A-1b Versions, that can be tested correctly:

I attached a simple PDF-file with wich we tested.

Greetings
Reinhard

Posted: **Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:04 pm**

Hi EFernkaes,

We have looked into this and you are right in pointing out there is an issue.

We have fixed this for your document and for any other similar documents you may have.

You should not longer experience this issue in our next release which should be out very soon.

Regards,

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:30 pm**

Hi Hugo,
thank you very much.

I just downloaded and installed v14.1.61 and indeed, now we can produce PDF files, that can positivly be checked against PDF/A-1b conformance.
And very good, the inital searchable PDF is searchable after, too. Perfect.

One question remains:
Why does the resulting PDF/A-1b has a 9 times higher file size as the original PDF?

Attached, you can find an actual example, that was produced with the

status = urGdPicturePdf.ConvertToPDFA(tmpComparablePDFFile, PDFA_ConversionVersion, True, True)

command.

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:01 am**

In Addition: I wrote above 9 x higher, 9x was an other example, the above example is (only) 5 x bigger.

But more severe: There still remains a problem whilst converting to PDF/A.

Attached an original and a corrupt converted PDF/A-1b file.

The command used was quite simple:

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status = urGdPicturePdf.ConvertToPDFA(tmpPDFFileJustConverted, PDFA_ConversionVersion, True, True)

Thank you very much for testing.

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PDF-A-1b format cannot be produced anymore with v14.1.59 or .60

PDF-A-1b format cannot be produced anymore with v14.1.59 or .60

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