Apply operations to convert a PDF document while satisfying PDF/A-1b compliance. Automatic fix-ups are applied if possible, conversion failure is raised as an exception.

Note: PDF/A compliance is not guaranteed if changes are made to the PDF document after conversion has succeeded.

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Configures the conversion activities for a PDF document.

Apply ISO 19005-1:2005 restrictions and prohibitions to convert a candidate PDF document to PDF/A.

If the candidate PDF document violates a restriction or prohibition, PDF Xpress may attempt to apply an automatic fix-up to satisfy compliance. If a detected violation is not fixed, then the conversion process will raise an exception that describes the nature of the failure.

PDF Xpress PDF/A conversion support is limited to new image-only PDFs. Image-only PDFs lack searchable text content, but require only honoring a subset of PDF/A-1b compliance rules. Consequently, converting a candidate PDF document to PDF/A-1b is guaranteed to fail if any of the following is true—

• The candidate was opened from the file system or from memory.
• Pages from another PDF document are inserted into the candidate.
• XFDF is imported into the candidate.
• A watermark is added to the candidate.

PDF/A compliance is not guaranteed if changes are made to the PDF document after conversion has succeeded.

Refer to ISO 19005-1:2005 Document management — Electronic document file format for long-term preservation — Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1)

Specify a well-formed ICC profile using either a filename or a local memory buffer. The ICC profile filename will be ignored if a local memory buffer is provided.

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