[Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8

[John Murtagh]

Hi Beth

Here at Brunel University we get our submitters to use Open Office, an
open source application that converts Word to PDF.

Due to expensive licencing Adobe Professional is only used by myself for
Word conversion, but I've not seen much difference in the quality of the
PDF produced. In fact I have only ever seen the Adobe converter get
bogged down with large files.

John Murtagh (on behalf of) BURA-manager at brunel.ac.uk

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-----Original Message-----
From: ssadler at ucalgary.ca [mailto:ssadler at ucalgary.ca] 
Sent: 09 February 2008 15:32
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8

Hi Beth,
We are using PDF/A and these features for our theses and other PDF work
in our repository.
http://digitization.ucalgary.ca/index.php/PDF_Standards

Hope this helps, feel free to e-mail follow-up questions.
Shawna

Shawna Sadler
Coordinator, Digital Initiaves
University of Calgary
(403) 229-2477
ssadler at ucalgary.ca

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> From: Beth Black <black.367 at osu.edu>
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> Hello!
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> We are investigating using PDF/A in our repository and wonder what 
> others are doing. Do you recommend or require  PDF/A?  If you require,

> do you convert for submitters in some way?
> Any other thoughts on PDF/A?
>
> Thanks!
> Beth
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> Beth Black
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> From: Shane Beers <sbeers at gmu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] PDF/A
> To: Beth Black <black.367 at osu.edu>
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> Beth:
>
> When I first arrived here, I was interested in attempting to 
> standardize the use of PDF/A, especially for our ETD collections where

> the submissions were far more controllable.
>
> The major hurdle is that all content of the PDF/A must be embedded 
> into the document itself - this can become an impossibility if the 
> person creating the PDF is someone who does not know how to correctly 
> embed everything. You would be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't...) 
> how fairly simple technology can confuse even PhD students.
>
> That also creates a limitation of the content of the PDF/A's - as of 
> now they can not contain things like multimedia objects. This may not 
> be a real concern of yours, but it's of note.
>
> Additionally, the conversion from regular PDFs to PDF/A is often 
> impossible, as the information in the PDF was not embedded in the 
> first place, and you no longer have things like the original font and 
> so on.
>
> Know that this is only my cursory findings, and not gleaned from a 
> deep investigation on my part. You may wish to investigate it 
> yourself. Essentially what I'm saying is - it will probably work quite

> well in an extremely structured workflow. Outside of that, you may 
> have many issues to overcome!
>
> Shane Beers
> Digital Repository Services Librarian
> George Mason University
> sbeers at gmu.edu
> http://mars.gmu.edu
> 703-993-3742
>
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Beth Black wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> We are investigating using PDF/A in our repository and wonder what 
>> others are doing. Do you recommend or require  PDF/A?  If you 
>> require, do you convert for submitters in some way?
>> Any other thoughts on PDF/A?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Beth
>>
>> Beth Black
>> Systems Librarian and Assistant Professor University  Libraries 610 
>> Ackerman Road, Room 5855 Columbus, Ohio 43202
>> 614-688-5428 phone
>> 614-292-7859 fax
>> black.367 at osu.edu
>>
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