Comment 5 for bug 373445

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Davide Capodaglio (davidecapod) wrote :

No I don't have any rendering issue.
But PDF/A has become an international standard for "the long-term archiving of electronic documents" (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A).
For example in Italy this format is required by many public organizations (Trade Bureau and many others).
So it's important to know when a document is conforming to the standard, and knowing that it is a "PDF-1.4" is too generic.

Moreover, it should be simple to determine the PDF/A compliance, since the PDF contains a special metadata for this.
If you open the attached PDF with a simple text editor, you can find this:
(note the xmlns:pdfaid="http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/" namespace, as stated in wikipedia article)

21 0 obj
<</Type/Metadata/Subtype/XML/Length 3072>>
stream
<?xpacket begin="" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/">
 <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
  <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
      xmlns:pdfaid="http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/">
   <pdfaid:part>1</pdfaid:part>
   <pdfaid:conformance>A</pdfaid:conformance>
  </rdf:Description>
  <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
      xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
   <dc:creator>
    <rdf:Seq>
     <rdf:li>Davide Capodaglio</rdf:li>
    </rdf:Seq>
   </dc:creator>
  </rdf:Description>
  <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
     xmlns:pdf="http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/">
   <pdf:Producer>OpenOffice.org 3.1</pdf:Producer>
  </rdf:Description>
  <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
    xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/">
   <xmp:CreatorTool>Writer</xmp:CreatorTool>
   <xmp:CreateDate>2009-05-08T11:39:29+02:00</xmp:CreateDate>
  </rdf:Description>
 </rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>