<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Albert Astals Cid <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aacid@kde.org" target="_blank">aacid@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't understand your e-mail, does anywhere pdfunite say it does what you want it to do? As far as I can see, no.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> I saw a set of programs that didn't behave well with each other. I'm not an expert on the PDF file format, so thought I'd ask some people who might know.<br></div><div><br></div><div> Leonard Rosenthol gave me the answer I needed, which was that I shouldn't be expecting tools written to generically work with "PDF" to return files which follow the PDF/A restrictions.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div> In the shorter term we will be switching back to using pdftk (which creates files JHOVE approves of when the resulting PDF file size is small enough), but longer term stop joining source PDF files before preserving at all.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">If you want pdfunite to do something it does not do, you can either open a bug<br>
in the bug tracker being *very specific* about what you think should be added/<br>
changed/fixed or you can send a patch.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> I don't have sufficient knowledge of PDF or PDF/A restrictions to do either. All I have is a set of tools (popplar, pdftk, JHOVE, verapdf) that generate files and reports about those files.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Cheers,<br>
Albert<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">System Administration and software developer,<br>Canadiana.org <a href="http://www.canadiana.ca" target="_blank">http://www.canadiana.ca</a><br></div>
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