PDF/A Conformance for Archiving

Conform your PDF files to PDF/A standard

With ViewCompanion Premium you can conform, or convert, all your existing PDF files to PDF/A for long-term preservation and archiving.

PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the PDF format specialized for use in the archiving and long-term preservation of electronic documents. The conformance process ensures that the document can be reproduced the same way using any software in years to come.
A PDF/A compliant document must be 100% self-contained and all information necessary for displaying it in the same manner must be embedded into the file. This includes, but is not limited to, text, images, vector graphics, fonts, and color space information.

You can choose between different levels of conformance: PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3u and PDF/A-4. The lowest level, level 1, do support a much-reduced feature set of the PDF file format. We do recommend that you use conformance level 2 (PDF/A-2b) or higher, as some files may fail to conform to level 1 due to the content of the file.

ViewCompanion Premium provides the following conformance tools:

• Conform the active document to PDF/A. This will create a conformed copy of active file.
• Batch Conform PDF files to PDF/A. This will conform a list of selected files into new files placed in the selected output folder.