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PROBLEM: Converting to PDF/A-1b: 2005 (CMYK)

mariakmue
Registered: Dec 13 2010
Posts: 3

Hello,
 

 
I try to have a "PDF/A-1b: 2005 (CMYK)"-version of a document.
 
What I am doing: I print my documnet (sometimes a word-document sometimes a standard.pdf) into a "PDF/A-1b: 2005 (CMYK)"-version.
 
Then I check the document with the preflight-profile if my new document was conform to "PDF/A-1b".
 
Here the surprizing part:
 
The new document is NOT conform!!!!!
  
How could that ever be? I print it into that PDF-version and then it is not conform to the version I printed it in????!!!!????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???
  

 
I would be VERY HAPPY to get help on this.
 

 
THANK YOU

Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
Hi,

try to use a PDF/A-RGB, not a CMYK one (which is a non-sense for MS-Office files).

;-)
mariakmue
Registered: Dec 13 2010
Posts: 3
Thank you Merlin!

It works!

But could you tell me why CMYK does not make sense for MS-Office files?