fonts in included pdf and PDF/A (question)

[TeXhackse]

fonts in included pdf and PDF/A (question)

[TeXhackse]

@evamvid which compiler did you use?

Actually the included PDF has to be PDF/A compliant to be included directly or at least have embedded fonts.
LaTeX and also pdfx cannot edit the fonts in the pdf image you included. So pdfx is not breaking it, it's just not touching it.

[evamvid]

I'm using LuaLatex. I guess I just assumed that since the included pdf still had to be rendered, pdfx would also package the fonts like it does for all of the others ones.

Any tips on getting the included PDF to be PDF/A compliant? Everything I found online amounted to converting it to ps and back, which seemed to just make it into an image and lose the text elements. Is there a better way to do it?

edit: I should clarify, all of the fonts are embedded; I did that with ghostscript. I think it's something about the way that they are embedded that's PDF/A noncompliant and causing the issue.

[georg-jung]

You could give simple converters like this one https://tools.pdf24.org/de/pdf-in-pdfa a try. Not sure if the conversions by these converters have any relevant downsides, but they tend to be simple and work.

[TeXhackse]

If i remember correctly ghostscript cannot embed CID fonts …
Would have to look that up.

There is a bunch of pdf printers which don't convert it into an image but keep the text elements and fix that. Might be the easiest which I'd try first.

Beside this there are converters free and non free, like mentioned before. With the online ones one should always pay attention to their policies.

Anything else depends a bit on the structure of the file. The most general solutions here are only included in pdf editors which are not free and depend on you OS. For everything else I'd need more information.

[evamvid]

Thanks for the advice! I ended up using LibreOffice Draw to open the PDF and save to PDFA. I had some issues with LO doing the classic thing it does with Word documents too, where it can't load fonts or whatever and distorts everything loading its own font, but after I installed the fonts that were embedded and flushed the font cache, I was able to save it as a PDF/A, and now the include means that the whole document successfully saves as PDF/A too.

Thanks for the help!