Define form as PDF/A

[Former Community Member]

Hi everyone

I use the LiveCycle Designer to design a from.

This form will be feeded with some data and freezed to a pdf file later.

Now my question: Is it possible to define the compatiblity or file type as "PDF/A" in the designer?

Our intention is to archive the PDF more than 10 years due to legal requirements

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Claude

[Srini_Dhulipall]

To conver PDF to PDF/A you need to use the Output service which is part of Livecycle Server components.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/LiveCycle/9.5/WorkbenchHelp/WS92d06802c76abadb-1cc35bda128261a20dd-7b7b....

You can not convert the PDF to PDF/A using Livecycle Designer.

Thanks

Srini

[Former Community Member]

Hi Srini

We use the SAP interactive Forms. That means we create forms with the LiveCycle Designer and generate a PDF through an API (Adobe Document Services).

The whole thing runs on a J2EE server (NetWeaver).

So I have to check if it's possible to access the LiveCycle server components.

Nevermind. Thanks a lot Srini.

Best regards
Claude

[Jono_Moore]

Another way to do it is to print the LC PDF to a new PDF file.

[Former Community Member]

Hi Jono

We are able to create/generate a new PDF file. But it's not PDF/A conform.

But with which component do you think I should print the LC PDF to a new PDF file? With the output service (LC server components)?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Claude

[radzmar]

There are some information how to setup a xfa form for pdf/a in the XFA spec 3.1 page 1389.

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/xml/index_arch.html#xfa_31

You may be possible to set up the output for pdf/a with xfa.config.present.pdf.pdfa....

But you will need LiveCycle Forms ES2 to use the properties (see page 1396).

[Jono_Moore]

Claude, unfortunately I don't know the server side of the LC products. I was thinking more of a method to print the pdf through Distiller to get what you're after.