

My theory is that I am including images with gradients and/or transparencies and that this is not allowed. I would like to include a MWE, but since I cannot check whether printing fails from Adobe Distiller without involving a professional printer I cannot provide a good test case. (about 800 lines like these for an 18 page document) Update: After updating texlive install to newest 2015 versions I am able to produce valid pdf-a i.e. Should pdflatex generally produce valid pdfs or is it not intended to be compliant? What is the procedure for making compliant pdfs?įrom Apache preflight I get lines like these: 5.2.2 : Forbidden field in an annotation definition, Flags of Link annotation are invalid on page 2Ģ.4.2 : Invalid Color space, The operator "k" can't be used with RGB Profile on page 2Ģ.4.2 : Invalid Color space, The operator "K" can't be used with RGB Profile on page 2ĥ.2.2 : Forbidden field in an annotation definition, Flags of Link annotation are invalid on page 3ħ.1 : Error on MetaData, Cannot understand PI data part : 'begin='?'?' in 'begin='?'? id='W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d' ' I have found the Apache preflight tool, but this gives many, many issues and I do not know which of these are important. In case my pdf is invalid can I get a detailed report preferable with page numbers for where to improve? Which pdf standard should I validate against, PDF/X or PDF/A and which version? Is there are way to validate that my pdfs will be printable for Adobe software? Since I do not have access to Adobe Pro tools myself it can be a long, very tedious process to debug the produced pdf (sending it back and forth to the printer).

Typically they are able to open the pdf just fine in Adobe Reader, but when attempting to print from Adobe Reader (Pro) they encounter errors, even though I experience no problems printing from Evince and Acrobat Reader DC from home. pdflatex with many embedded figures (pdfs, pngs, jpgs, etc.) I have often run into the problem that professional printers are not able to print the document. When producing LaTeX documents using e.g.
