These are partially contained in a PDFA_def.ps file. Ghostscript needs some special instructions for creating PDF/A files.
From the downloaded zip archive, extract AdobeRGB1998.icc to the C:\GS_PDFA folder.Ħ. An ICC profile describes a “color space.” We’ll use the simplest one, Adobe RGB (1998). Create an empty folder on your C: drive called C:\GS_PDFA (Ghostscript PDF/A).ĥ. The CutePDF installer should automatically find your Ghostscript installation and should not prompt you to download Ghostscript.Ĥ. You’ll need to find CutePDF 3.2 somewhere.
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Update : The latest version is now 4.0 and does not work with this procedure last time I checked.
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(Fortunately, Acro Software has removed the adware that they used to install with it). Download the free CutePDF Writer 3.2 here and install it. At the end of the install, go ahead and let it Generate cidfmap for Windows CJK TrueType fonts.ģ. Install Ghostscript but customize the directory so it doesn’t change if you get a later version, I use C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\latest. I found that the 32-bit version works fine even under 64-bit Windows 7. Download the latest GNU Affero-licensed version of Ghostscript here (version 9.25 9.54 as of this writing). But you need a more recent Ghostscript for this PDF/A conversion, so you need to install Ghostscript before installing CutePDF.ġ. If you don’t already have Ghostscript, CutePDF Writer 3.2 downloads Ghostscript 8.15. Note This is a fairly advanced procedure and requires Administrator permissions.ĬutePDF uses a program called Ghostscript to convert a printer file to PDF. The procedure has also been updated to accommodate more recent Ghostscript parameter settings. Fonts are clear again files are small and searchable. This workflow now creates PDF/A-2b files, which do support transparency. Since PDF/A-1b doesn’t support transparency, the text was often converting to raster images, which means they appear fuzzy, are not searchable, and the file size increases dramatically. But it seems that browsers especially are increasingly using semi-transparent fonts.
I was using a modified CutePDF to print browser documents and emails to PDF/A-1b format. My paperless workflow creating PDF/A files was doing fine until about a year ago. This is a major revision of an article that I wrote in 2013.
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