Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 04/07/2024 04:49, Greg Marks wrote:
> $gs -dQUIET -dUseCIEColor -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 -dCompressFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true -sFONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/ -o new.pdf old.pdf
[...]
>     The object number and generation number shall be separated
>     by a single white-space character. The generation number
[...]
>     The stream keyword shall be followed either by a CARRIAGE RETURN

I expect that pdftk and qpdf have their own serializers. I have no idea 
if they can transform a file to a PDF/A compliant document, but they 
might use proper separators.

Perhaps LaTeX documents require some tuning (metadata blocks, etc.). If 
you use pdflatex then I would try lualatex.