InterForm Manual - System & Method

The Requirements
• Before you can create PDF files that are PDF/A-1b compliant, you will need to install
a unicode soft font. The unicode soft font is installed as a TTF (True Type Font) as
described on page 310.
• You need to link all used font numbers with a unicode soft font for the *PDF printer
group in Autodownload (in the font menu) as shown on page 312.
Remember that even the font number referenced on the header of the overlays also
need be linked with a unicode soft font in InterForm400:
Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D
Overlay name PDFA
Overlay text PDF/A demo overlay
Line spacing 040 in 1/240 of an inch (*INPUT, 1-720)
Rotation 000 (*INPUT, 0, 90, 180, 270)
Extra left margin
positions 0 (0-99)
Maximum number of
print positions 378 (1-378)
Extra blank lines
on top 0 (0-99)
Font 9900 *INPUT, fontnumber F4=List
Extended page def. N (Y N)
Drawer / Papertype *PRINTER (*INPUT, *PRINTER, 1-256, Name) F4=List
Paper Size 1 F4=List
Pages per side 1
Copy management N (Y N)
F3=Exit F4=Prompt F11=Delete this overlay F12=Cancel
F13=Set view/print parameters F14=View F18=DSPSPLF F19=DSPPFM
• You will also need to specify Unicode Output=*PDF1A, when you merge (with a
spooled file), as shown on page 157, when using the PDF file naming definition, and
with UNICODEOUT(*PDFA1B) as indicated on page 382, on the MRGSPLFPDF
command.
• It is not allowed to encrypt a PDF/A file, so it is not possible to encrypt these files.
(The PDF Security module is required for encryption).
The Result
When you open a PDF/A-1b compliant PDF file, you will see this in Acrobat Reader:
InterForm A/S 389