Distiller F key Violation

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

Thank you Shlomo. This is what I needed to know. I am off vor a
vacation now fot a 2 1/2 weeks and will have to check this out upon my
return.

In the meantime: God bless.

Bodvar.

On 3/13/06, Shlomo Perets <shlomo2 at microtype.com> wrote:
> Bodvar,
>
> You wrote:
>
> >I had a small book I made in Aug 2005 which had distilled perfectly
> >until I added one blank page file to it in order to print it duplex
> >(and I updated the book, of course). Now the distller gives me this
> >report and quits without producing a PDF file (BTW, I also have the
> >"Generate Acrobat Data" set):
> >
> >....
> ><PDFA ISO="19005-1:DRAFT" COMPLIANT="false">
> >
> >PDF/A Compliance Report
> >
> >1.  Content
> >
> >    [Violation] The F key in the Annot dictionary is missing or has an
> >invalid value.
> >       Page 3, Occurrences: 17
> >       Page 5, Occurrences: 1
> >       Page 6, Occurrences: 3
> >....
> >    This document does not pass PDF/A:DRAFT compliance checks.
> >
> ></PDFA>
> >
> >%%[ Warning: Did not pass PDF/A compliance tests.. No PDF file produced. ] %%
> >Distill Time: 1 seconds (00:00:01)
> >**** End of Job ****
> >UNQOUTE ********
> >
> >What does this mean? I guess it has something to do with
> >cross-references to the last page page-count that I x-ref to the other
> >chapter pages, since the blank page was added after the TOC which
> >precedes the chapter files. Will I have to reset the Last page x-ref
> >marker and the x-refs in the footers of every master page of the
> >chapters, or is there another (and possibly easier) way out here?
>
> Do you need the PDF to be "PDF/A" compliant? This standard was meant
> primarily for long-term archiving/reliability and some of its flavors may
> expressly prohibit external dependencies, or place restrictions on links to
> other PDFs (or interactivity in general).
>
> You can turn off the standard compliance testing in Acrobat Distiller
> settings, Standards section.
>
>
> Shlomo Perets
>
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