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We have the need to create PDF/A-documents, either from TIFF/JPEG or PDF itself. Are there any plans to support PDF/A?

Joachim

If I'm not mistaken, you yourself have to make it an pdf/a,eg. embed fonts, objects, metadata, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

Hello,

support for PDF/A 1b compliance is highly appreciated. Also a validation mechanism similar to Adobes' Preflight for PDF documents is needed.
I am working with sensitive medical data stored in PDF documents, which need to be converted to PDF/A-1b and validated before sent to the archive.

Thanks for your hard work, pdfSharp is great to use and helped a lot in my projects so far!

Best regards
cyclonick

Hi !

How far is this support for PDF/A documents? I am trying to find any project (library) that would allow me to convert (or recreate) 1.3 files into 1.4 with PDF/A features.

Andy

I asked about PDF/A (with an offer to do some work if necessary) 3 years ago, and was told that it was on the list, and pointed to this thread, but I cannot see any recent activity in this regard

My offer to do some work stands, but it would be nice to know if anyone would be willing to assist us by pointing to the aspects which need the work!

How do I create PDF/A with v1.32? Its now available or maybe soon?

I'm trying to scan some documents (+50 pages documents) to PDF/A-1b type with PDFCreator lib, but when try validate the file, appear some errors and is to slow process!

Thanks for all help.

Hi,

I'm looking forward to the PDF/A feature, are there any detailed plans now? When do you expect this feature to be released?

Regards
Michael

the support of PDF/A documents would be great!

Im interested in this too.

Wow, this thread is 16 years old. I guess that support for PDF/A isn't on the to do-list then?

Wrong guess.

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Thomas
(Freelance Software Developer with several years of MigraDoc/PDFsharp experience)

Hi,
I have just upgraded to the latest version of pdfsharp (6.1.0) (.net), I was using version 1.50.
I was hoping to find the ability to generate PDF/A-3 files, but it still doesn't seem possible.
Do you have any idea when this feature will be available?
Maybe it already is and I haven't figured out how to do it ...

It's on the To Do list, so it cannot be used yet.
I cannot give you an ETA.

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Thomas
(Freelance Software Developer with several years of MigraDoc/PDFsharp experience)

The PDF/A-3 format will be urgently needed for the creation of digital invoices from 2025.
Is it included in version 6.1.1?

There is limited support for PDF/A (don't ask me for the exact version) in PDFsharp 6.2.0 Preview 1.
You can download the source, set version to PDF/A-3 and see if you can create correct files.


Is there a legal background? Links?

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Thomas
(Freelance Software Developer with several years of MigraDoc/PDFsharp experience)

Is there a legal background? Links?[/quote]

https://www.ferd-net.de/upload/FAQ-ZUGFeRD-1.pdf
https://www.mittelstand-digital-wertnetzwerke.de/interoperabilitaet/standards-im-e-business/transaktion/zugferd/

https://www.e-rechnung-bund.de/e-rechnung/merksatze-zur-erechnung/#:~:text=Eine%20PDF%2DDatei%20ist%20keine%20E%E2%80%91Rechnung.&text=Eine%20E%E2%80%91Rechnung%20stellt%20Rechnungsinhalte,erf%C3%BCllen%20diese%20gesetzlichen%20Anforderungen%20nicht.

https://www.ihk.de/darmstadt/produktmarken/recht-und-fair-play/steuerinfo/bmf-plant-verpflichtende-erechnung-und-meldesystem-5784882#:~:text=Ab%20dem%201.%20Januar%202025,der%20Verabschiedung%20des%20Wachstumschancengesetzes%20gelegt.

There is limited support for PDF/A (don't ask me for the exact version) in PDFsharp 6.2.0 Preview 1.
You can download the source, set version to PDF/A-3 and see if you can create correct files.

Thx a lot

Thanks for the links.
So, PDF/A does not qualify as E-Rechnung, but ZUGFeRD does.

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Thomas
(Freelance Software Developer with several years of MigraDoc/PDFsharp experience)

In my opinion that is not correct.
ZUGFeRD is not a program, it's a data format.
The document consists of a readable PDF, containing an XML file with the machine-readable data.
Our program creates an invoice as a PDF using PdfSharp.
To generate a valid ZUGFeRD invoice, we have now to embed the additionally generated XML file into the PDF and save it as PDF A/3 format.