PDF/A Archival Standard Files
The PDF/A standard (ISO 19005) guarantees long-term digital preservation by strictly forbidding external dependencies. Fonts must be 100% embedded, audio/video elements are banned, and encryption is strictly prohibited.
These files are validated against the PDF/A standard. Use them to verify that your compliance pipelines correctly identify the PDF/A XMP metadata tag and route them to long-term cold storage without triggering validation errors.
PDFA-1b
A strictly compliant PDF/A-1b document, representing the earliest legacy archival standard.
PDFA-3b
A compliant PDF/A-3b document, allowing the embedding of arbitrary file formats (like XML invoices) inside the archival wrapper.
PDFA-2b
A strictly compliant PDF/A-2b document, standard for basic visual archiving without embedded XML data requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
Use Cases
- Testing compliance ingestion pipelines that strictly require PDF/A formats for government or legal e-discovery archives.
- Validating PDF-to-PDF/A conversion tools by providing a baseline known-good output.
- Ensuring metadata parsers correctly extract the complex `/pdfaid` XML schema.