[Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF

[Larry Stone]

> specification. To my knowledge, there is no batch way to convert
> existing PDF files to PDF/A.

The latest version of AFPL Ghostscript seems like it might be able
to output PDF/A, and it runs quite well in batch-mode (or under a
web server).  Here's the relevant doc:

http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm#PDFA

Note that the ps2pdf application just runs Ghostscript, and it ought to
be able to accept a PDF file as input as well.

Also see the main site http://www.ghostscript.com/ for news.
I haven't tried Ghostscript 8.53 but have found previous versions
about as reliable as Adobe's reader, although they don't usually
fail on the same documents.  I think it's worth a look, anyway.

    -- Larry