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PDF/A is a open standard. No doubt about that anymore.
But I can say it is outrageous in Windows from a simple <print> command and you have de PDF/A format, while in MAC I am spending precious time google my problem with no reasonable answer.
Thanks in advance for helping.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) / Office 2011 / OS X 10.11.1
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
What exactly is your issue?
Printing from Windoze PC? Printing from Mac? If Mac, what App? Something else?
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PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for the digital preservation of electronic documents. PDF/A differs from PDF by prohibiting features ill-suited to long-term archiving, such as font linking (as opposed to font embedding).
Print from Mac. Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac.
I have a .docx file in a Mac.
I want to save it as PDF, but with a specific format (PDF/A).
pose your MS Word question to the MS Word for Mac forum here > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word?tab=Threads
If you want to export your Word document on a Mac to PDF/A-1a, then get the free LibreOffice, and once your document is opened, choose File menu : Export as PDF, and on that export panel, there is a checkbox for PDF/A-1a. LibreOffice is an MS Office replacement suite.
If you subsequently open that LibreOffice generated commercial PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.14, or version 15, the following banner will appear. Click to enlarge.
I would be very surprised that MS Windows, or MS Word on Windows is now exporting PDF directly to PDF/A-1a standards without the help of Adobe Acrobat Pro's Writer, as this would have to satisfy several PDF/A-1a criteria found in that specification.
The native document format on OS X is PDF v1.3 via either an application's File menu : Export, or File menu : Print : PDF. That version of PDF implementation cannot conform to the minimum PDF v1.4, or 1.7 that the PDF/A standards are based upon. Partly due to this issue, Apple does not ship any OS X applications, or other OS X applications that generate the PDF/A output. Third-party application vendors that wish to implement their own PDF export/printing solution can and do implement the PDF/A standard as they have no operating system restrictions.
Just an FYI. Here are the Word options for save as PDF for my Word 2013 running in Windows. I don't know if Word for Mac has the same options. See the bottom of the window titled PDF options.
Bob,
Thanks for the update. I presently have no access to Office 2016 for Mac, or Office 2013 on Windows. At least, now I know about Word 2013.
I have several computers and gave you the incorrect Word version. The window I posted is from Office 2010. Sorry for my confusion with versions.
I have Win8 - Word 2013 = looks exactly the same as your example - exported Lorem Ipsum = immediately opened in Reader
PDF/A natively created in Mac OS X. Is still impossible?
