Bug 692616

Summary: Implement the new PDF/A-2 specification
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: Ken Sharp <ken.sharp>
Component: PDF WriterAssignee: Ken Sharp <ken.sharp>
Status: NOTIFIED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: mlungu777
Priority: P2    
Version: master   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Customer: 170 Word Size: ---

Description Ken Sharp 2011-10-19 08:39:58 UTC 
PDF/A (archive format) has a new version 2 which has recently been adopted by the standards committee.

The main change is the inclusion of transparency, but there may be other aspects to it (almost certainly there are). 

We now have a concrete customer request to implement this version of the specification as an output from pdfwrite.
Comment 1 Ken Sharp 2012-03-22 15:11:41 UTC 
Git commits :

d0371d915bae6b3d52487d49e470b0e560837ab2

and 

701b769786f6e2b036df8427c17c6a5dc294a672

add support for PDF/A-2 creation. Note that the PDFA command line switch is now an integer. The meanings are:

-dPDFA - create PDF/A-1b
-dPDFA=1 - create PDF/A-1b
-dPDFA=2 - create PDF/A-2b