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You can use the DocConverter service to determine whether
a PDF document is PDF/A-compliant. For information about a PDF/A
document and how to convert a PDF document to a PDF/A document,
see
Converting Documents to PDF/A Documents
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Summary of steps
To determine PDF/A compliancy, perform the following steps:
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Include project files.
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Create a DocConvert client
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Reference a PDF document used to determine PDF/A compliancy.
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Set run-time options.
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Retrieve information about the PDF document.
Include project files
Include the necessary files in your development
project. If you are creating a client application by using Java,
include the necessary JAR files. If you are using web services,
make sure that you include the proxy files.
The following
JAR files must be added to your project’s class path:
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adobe-livecycle-client.jar
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adobe-usermanager-client.jar
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adobe-docconverter-client.jar
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adobe-utilities.jar (required if LiveCycle is deployed
on JBoss Application Server)
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jbossall-client.jar (required if LiveCycle is deployed
on JBoss Application Server)
For information about
the location of these JAR files, see
Including LiveCycle Java library files
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Create a DocConvert client
Before you can programmatically perform
an DocConverter operation, you must create a DocConverter client.
If you are using the Java API, create a
DocConverterServiceClient
object.
If you are using the DocConverter web service API, create a
DocConverterServiceService
object.
Reference a PDF document used to determine PDF/A compliancy
A PDF
document must be referenced and passed to the DocConverter service
in order to determine whether the PDF document is PDF/A-compliant.
Set run-time options
You can set a run-time option that determines
how much information is tracked during the conversion process. That
is, you can set nine different level that specify how much information
the DocConverter service tracks when it converts a PDF document
to a PDF/A document.
Retrieve information about the PDF document
After you create the
DocConverter service client, reference the PDF document, and set
the run-time options, you can determine whether the PDF document
is a PDF/A-compliant document.
Determine PDF/A compliancy using the Java API
Determine PDF/A compliancy by using the Java API:
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Include project files
Include client JAR files,
such as adobe-docconverter-client.jar, in your Java project’s class
path.
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Create a DocConvert client
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Reference a PDF document used to determine PDF/A compliancy
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Create a
java.io.FileInputStream
object
that represents the PDF document to convert by using its constructor
and passing a string value that specifies the location of the PDF
file.
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Create a
com.adobe.idp.Document
object by
using its constructor and passing the
java.io.FileInputStream
object.
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Set run-time options
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Create a
PDFAValidationOptionSpec
object
by using its constructor.
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Set the compliance level by invoking the
PDFAValidationOptionSpec
object’s
setCompliance
method and
passing
PDFAValidationOptionSpec.Compliance.PDFA_1B
.
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Set the information tracking level by invoking the
PDFAValidationOptionSpec
object’s
setLogLevel
method
and passing a string value that specifies the tracking level. For
example, pass the value
FINE
. For information about
the different values, see the
setLogLevel
method
in the
LiveCycle API Reference
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Retrieve information about the PDF document
Determine
PDF/A compliancy by invoking the
DocConverterServiceClient
object’s
isPDFA
method
and passing the following values:
The
isPDFA
method
returns a
PDFAValidationResult
object that contains
the results of this operation.
Determine PDF/A compliancy using the web service API
Determine PDF/A compliancy by using the web service API:
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Include project files
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Create a DocConvert client
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Using the Microsoft
.NET client assembly, create a
DocConverterServiceService
object
by invoking its default constructor.
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Set the
DocConverterServiceService
object’s
Credentials
data member
with a
System.Net.NetworkCredential
value that specifies
the user name and password value.
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Reference a PDF document used to determine PDF/A compliancy
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Create a
BLOB
object by using its constructor.
The
BLOB
object is used to store the PDF document
that is converted to a PDF/A document.
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Create a
System.IO.FileStream
object by
invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents
the file location of the PDF document and the mode to open the file
in.
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Create a byte array that stores the content of the
System.IO.FileStream
object.
You can determine the size of the byte array by getting the
System.IO.FileStream
object’s
Length
property.
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Populate the byte array with stream data by invoking the
System.IO.FileStream
object’s
Read
method
and passing the byte array, the starting position, and the stream
length to read.
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Populate the
BLOB
object by assigning its
binaryData
property
with the contents of the byte array.
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Set run-time options
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Create a
PDFAValidationOptionSpec
object
by using its constructor.
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Set the compliance level by assigning the
PDFAValidationOptionSpec
object’s
compliance
data
member with the value
PDFAConversionOptionSpec_Compliance.PDFA_1B
.
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Set the information tracking level by assigning the
PDFAValidationOptionSpec
object’s
resultLevel
data
member with the value
PDFAValidationOptionSpec_ResultLevel.DETAILED
.
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Retrieve information about the PDF document
Determine
PDF/A compliancy by invoking the
DocConverterServiceService
object’s
isPDFA
method
and passing the following values:
The
isPDFA
method
returns a
PDFAValidationResult
object that contains
the results of this operation.
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