Problem converting non-PDF documents into PDF/A documents

Wahaj_Khan · March 24, 2015, 8:53am

Hi Support,

We tried to convert non-PDF documents into PDF/A documents and came up with some problems. We tried on both Windows and Linux platforms. We have prepared a result sheet which explains the input document, platform and the result of the test case i.e. P for Pass and F for Fail. We first convert the non-PDF document into PDF document and then convert that PDF document into PDF/A document. We have the license of Aspose Total but we are currently using the Java libraries only. The version of each Java library is listed:

- aspose-barcode-6.0.1.0-java

- aspose-cells-8.3.0-java

- aspose-diagram-4.0.0-java

- aspose-email-4.7.0-java

- aspose-imaging-2.1.0.0-java

- aspose-ocr-2.0.0-java

- aspose-pdf-9.7.0-java

- aspose-slides-14.8.0-java

- aspose-tasks-7.3.0-java

- aspose-words-14.11.0-java

Both the result sheet and input documents (zip) are attached for your reference. Waiting for your feedback.

muhammad.ijaz · March 25, 2015, 7:48am

Hi Wahaj,

We are investigating your documents and will update you soon.

Best Regards,

muhammad.ijaz · April 28, 2015, 12:27am

Hi Wahaj,

Sorry for the delay. Can you please also share the complete process you are following? Are you using other APIs to convert to PDFs and then using Aspose.Pdf to convert to other compliance levels (A1-a, A2-a, A3-a etc.) or are you using individual APIs to convert to PDF-A directly?

Best Regards,

Wahaj_Khan · May 6, 2015, 8:35am

Hi Ijaz,

We first convert the non-PDF document into PDF document using the Aspose different libraries e.g. Aspose Word, Aspose cell based on the document type and then use the converted PDF document into PDF/A with different compliance level (A1-a, A2-a etc).

Best Regards,

tilal.ahmad · May 7, 2015, 8:16am

Hi Wahaj,

Thanks for your feedback. We are testing your described scenario with above mentioned JARs and will update you our findings as soon as possible.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Best Regards,

tilal.ahmad · May 23, 2015, 1:21am

Hi Wahaj,

We are sorry for the delayed response. We have converted your shared File formats to PDF using related Aspose JARs and later converted these PDF to PDFA standards. However We noticed that on Windows Platform only XLS, PPT and PPTX are failing some PDFA standards. So we have logged investigation tickets in our issue tracking system as following. We will notify you as soon as these are resolved.

Windows
File Format	PDFA2a	PDFA2b	PDFA3b
XLS	PDFNEWJAVA-34868	PDFNEWJAVA-34870	PDFNEWJAVA-34871
PPT	PDFNEWJAVA-34872	PDFNEWJAVA-34869	PDFNEWJAVA-34873
PPTX	PDFNEWJAVA-34874	PDFNEWJAVA-34875	PDFNEWJAVA-34876

Moreover, please note we will share Linux results with you soon.

Best Regards,

tilal.ahmad · May 25, 2015, 8:59am

Hi Wahaj,

Thanks for your patience. We have tested the scenario over Linux and noticed same File Formats and PDFA standards failed to pass PDFA validation, those failed over Windows OS. So we have logged following tickets in our issue tracking system for further investigation and rectification. We will keep you updated about the issue resolution progress within this forum thread.

Linux
File Format	PDFA2a	PDFA2b	PDFA3b
XLS	PDFNEWJAVA-34877	PDFNEWJAVA-34878	PDFNEWJAVA-34879
PPT	PDFNEWJAVA-34880	PDFNEWJAVA-34881	PDFNEWJAVA-34882
PPTX	PDFNEWJAVA-34883	PDFNEWJAVA-34884	PDFNEWJAVA-34885

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Best Regards,

Wahaj_Khan · June 23, 2015, 1:19am

Hi Support,
We have upgraded Aspose to tha latest version and found some improvements with the same input files.

- aspose.slides-15.4.0-jdk18.jar

- aspose-cells-8.4.2.jar

- aspose-pdf-10.3.0.jar

- aspose-words-15.5.0-jdk16.jar

Doc Type

Windows

Linux

1a

1b

2a

2b

3b

1a

1b

2a

2b

3b

TIF

P

TSV

P

CSV

P

F

P

ODS

P

F

P

ODT

P

F

RTF

P

XLSX

P

XLS

P

F

P

F

PPTX

P

F

P

F

PPT

P

F

P

F

DOC

P

p

P

DOCX

P

p

P

TXT

P

p

P

Successful in previous release

P

Successful in current & failed in previous release

F

Failed in current & failed in previous release

Wahaj_Khan · June 23, 2015, 1:29am

Hi support,

following may helpfull to further clarify the result sheet


	P	Successful in both previous release & current
	P	Successful in current & failed in previous release
	F	Failed in both current & failed in previous release

tilal.ahmad · June 23, 2015, 11:06am

Hi Wahaj,

Thanks for your feedback. It is good to know that most of the scenarios are working now.

As stated above, We are only able to notice issue with XLS, PPT and PPTX. We will appreciate it if you please share your sample code used for CSV, ODT and ODS conversions. As I am unable to replicate the problem on Linux.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Best Regards,

Wahaj_Khan · December 3, 2015, 12:03am

Hi Aspose team,

We have earlier reported, we were facing issues to convert PTT and PPTX into PDF/A 2a,2b and so on. are these fixed in your latest release? we are anxiously waiting for this fix. we have to add these features in our product for customers.

Kindly respond us as soon as possible.

Regards,

Ascertia Team

tilal.ahmad · December 3, 2015, 9:35am

Hi there,

Thanks for your inquiry. I am afraid your above reported issues are still not resolved as product team is busy in resolving other issues in the queue, reported earlier. However I have raised the priority of your issues and requested our team to share ETA at their earliest. We will notify you as soon as we made some significant progress towards issues’ resolution.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Best Regards,

aspose.notifier · October 26, 2016, 3:38pm

The issues you have found earlier (filed as PDFNEWJAVA-34870;PDFNEWJAVA-34871) have been fixed in Aspose.Pdf for Java 16.10.0.

This message was posted using Notification2Forum from Downloads module by Aspose Notifier.

asad.ali · April 5, 2018, 2:47pm

The issues you have found earlier (filed as PDFJAVA-34877) have been fixed in Aspose.PDF for Java 18.3. This message was posted using BugNotificationTool by @asad.ali

aspose.notifier · August 16, 2018, 10:47pm

The issues you have found earlier (filed as PDFJAVA-34879,PDFJAVA-34878) have been fixed in Aspose.PDF for Java 18.7.

aspose.notifier · November 6, 2018, 6:40pm

The issues you have found earlier (filed as PDFJAVA-34868) have been fixed in Aspose.PDF for Java 18.10.

aspose.notifier · August 30, 2023, 7:23pm

The issues you have found earlier (filed as PDFJAVA-34876,PDFJAVA-34880,PDFJAVA-34882,PDFJAVA-34881) have been fixed in Aspose.PDF for Java 23.8.

aspose.notifier · October 4, 2023, 12:01am

The issues you have found earlier (filed as PDFJAVA-34884,PDFJAVA-34875,PDFJAVA-34874,PDFJAVA-34883,PDFJAVA-34885) have been fixed in Aspose.PDF for Java 23.9.