Description

This repository contains all files required to produce PDF/A-2b compliant documents with a pdflatex workflow.

Instructions

Switch to the minimalexample folder and compile with pdflatex the file document.tex to produce a sample PDF/A document. Use document.tex as a template to create your own PDF/A document.

Metadata

The file *.xmpdata must be present (though it can be empty) in source directory at the time that package pdfx is loaded. In the minimal example this is obtained by means of \begin{filecontents*} macro (in document.tex file), which creates the file document.xmpdata with the metadata specified in the lines between \begin{filecontents*} and \end{filecontents*}. Warning: if you modify your metadata in your source tex file, you must remember to delete *.xmpdata before recompiling, since *.xmpdata is not rewrited and the resulting PDF/A will not reflect metadata changes.

Symbols permitted in metadata

Within the metadata, all printable ASCII characters except \, {, }, and % represent themselves. Also, all printable Unicode characters from the basic multilingual plane (i.e., up to code point U+FFFF) can be used directly with the UTF-8 encoding. Consecutive whitespace characters are combined into a single space. Whitespace after a macro such as \copyright, \backslash, or \sep is ignored. Blank lines are not permitted. Moreover, the following markup can be used:

'\ '          - a literal space  (for example after a macro)                  
\%            - a literal '%'                                                 
\{            - a literal '{'                                                 
\}            - a literal '}'                                                 
\backslash    - a literal '\'                                                 
\copyright    - the (c) copyright symbol                                      

The macro \sep is only permitted within \Author, \Keywords, and \Org. It is used to separate multiple authors, keywords, etc.

List of supported metadata fields

Here is a list of user-definable metadata fields currently supported, and their meanings. More may be added in the future. You can refer to documentation of pdfx package for a complete list.

• General information:

  \Author{...}	the document's human author. Separate multiple authors with \sep
  \Title{...}	the document's title
  \Keywords{...}	list of keywords, separated with \sep
  \Subject{...}	the abstract
  \Org{...}	publishers

• Copyright information:

  \Copyright	a copyright statement
  \CopyrightURL	location of a web page describing the owner and/or rights statement for this document
  \Copyrighted	True if the document is copyrighted, and False if it isn't. This is automatically set to True if either \Copyright or \CopyrightURL is specified, but can be overridden. For example, if the copyright statement is "Public Domain", this should be set to False

• Publication information:

  \PublicationType	The type of publication. If defined, must be one of book, catalog, feed, journal, magazine, manual, newsletter, pamphlet. This is automatically set to journal if \Journaltitle is specified, but can be overridden
  \Journaltitle	The title of the journal in which the document was published
  \Journalnumber	The ISSN for the publication in which the document was published
  \Volume	Journal volume
  \Issue	Journal issue/number
  \Firstpage	First page number of the published version of the document
  \Lastpage	Last page number of the published version of the document
  \Doi	Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for the document, without the leading "doi:"
  \CoverDisplayDate	Date on the cover of the journal issue, as a human-readable text string
  \CoverDate	Date on the cover of the journal issue, in a format suitable for storing in a database field with a 'date' data type

Example of metadata

The following is an example of metadata (lines to insert between \begin{filecontents*} and \end{filecontents*} of document.tex file):

\Title{The Title Goes Here}
\Author{Your Name Goes Here}
\Copyright{Copyright \copyright\ 2014 "Author's Name Goes Here"}
\Keywords{some keyword\sep another keyword\sep some more keywords}
\Subject {This is where you put the abstract.}