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Creating PDF/A documents using Adobe 5

klewis
Registered: Dec 14 2011
Posts: 2

Has anyone been successful in creating a PDF/A using Adobe 5? If so how was it done?
 
Thanks

My Product Information:
Acrobat 5.x or older, Windows
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Considering this version is about a decade old, I highly doubt many people can help you with this...
In principle it should be possible, though. Have you tried the help files?

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leonardr
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Registered: Feb 14 2006
Posts: 333
Three things

1) Acrobat 5 can NOT create PDF/A compliant files. It was released YEARS before PDF/A was.

2) Adobe stopped supporting Acrobat 5 almost 10 years ago!

3) Acrobat 5 won't work on any current OS.

I think it's time for that upgrade :).

Leonard Rosenthol
PDF Standards Architect
Adobe Systems

try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
1) According to this wikipedia-page, PDF/A was introduced in Acrobat 5.
2) Acrobat 5 was released in 2001. Acrobat 6 was released in 2003. It doesn't sound right that Adobe would stop supporting a product before the next one is released...

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daka630
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Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Just me nattering here; but, the Wiki states that PDF/A-1 (ISO 19005-1) was published by ISO on October 1, 2005.
The article states that PDF/A-1 was *based on* PDF Reference Version 1.4 (which is the version promulgated with Acrobat 5).
Note that this does not mean PDF/A-1 came about at the same time as Acrobat 5 nor was it introduced in Acrobat 5.
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Adobe provides 5 years of support from the year of release for an Acrobat version.
So:
Acrobat 5 - 2001 to 2006
Acrobat 6 - 2003 to 2008
Acrobat 7 - 2004 to 2009
Acrobat 8 - 2006 to 2011
Acrobat 9 - 2008 to 2013
Acrobat X - 2010 to 2015
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PDF/A-1 was published by ISO (not Adobe) during the two year active commercial release period of Acrobat 7 (which ended with the commercial release of Acrobat 8).
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Leonard's comment #1 states the facts (& given that Leonard has been hip deep in PDF related ISO Standards since they started he has some "gravatis" in that arena (as does Jim King)).
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Aside from the Wiki another useful resource on Acrobat versions is:
http://www.adobe.com/support/products/enterprise/eol/eol_matrix.php#86


Be well...

klewis
Registered: Dec 14 2011
Posts: 2
Thank you Gentleman! Your input has been very helpful.


Bernice
Registered: Dec 13 2011
Posts: 1
I want to create and sell Electronics books from my personal publishing site. Can anyone tell me how to do this? I want it to fit any eBook format. Possible?

Etha Emm Publishing