1Usage: pdfa [<options>] file...
2
3OPTIONS:
4
5 --file... arg A list of folders and/or file names to process.
6 -p [ --pass ] arg The password to process the input file. The password
7 is required only in the conversion mode and when the
8 input document is encrypted.
9 -x [ --noxml ] Disable XML report generation.
10 -o [ --outdir ] arg The output directory. The folder can be relative to
11 the current working folder. If the folder does not
12 exist PDFA will attempt to create the required path.
13 If this parameter is not specified all files will be
14 saved relative to the current working folder.
15 -f [ --fname ] arg The explicit name for the converted file. The
16 parameter is used only when converting one file at a
17 time. The output file will be stored in the 'outdir'
18 folder.
19 --suffix arg (=_pdfa) A string to append to all output filenames. This
20 option is typically used to tag output filenames
21 during multi-file or batch conversion. For example,
22 if input file is "my.pdf" and suffix is "_pdfa" the
23 output filename will be "my_pdfa.pdf".
24
25 -l [ --level ] arg (=1B) PDF/A Conformance Level: [1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 2U, 3A,
26 3B, 3U]
27
28 1A Target PDF/A-1a conformance profile.
29 1B Target PDF/A-1b conformance profile.
30 2A Target PDF/A-2a conformance profile.
31 2B Target PDF/A-2b conformance profile.
32 2U Target PDF/A-2u conformance profile.
33 3A Target PDF/A-3a conformance profile.
34 3B Target PDF/A-3b conformance profile.
35 3U Target PDF/A-3u conformance profile.
36
37 -c [ --convert ] Convert input PDF files to PDF/A compliant format.
38 -z [ --linearize ] Linearize the converted files.
39 --nr Do not revalidate after conversion.
40 --config arg Load xml file to configure font substitution for
41 missing fonts. By default, tries to load the file
42 "config.xml" in the current working directory.
43
44 --subfolders Process all subfolders.
45 --extension arg (=.pdf) The default file extension used to process PDF
46 documents. The default extension is ".pdf".
47 --verb arg (=1) Set the verbosity level to 'arg' (0-2).
48 -v [ --version ] Print the version information.
49 -h [ --help ] Print a listing of available options.
50
51
52Examples:
53 pdfa *.pdf
54 pdfa --level 1B in1.pdf in2.pdf mydir
55 pdfa -o outdir -c in.pdf
56 pdfa -o outdir -c -z -l 1B --subfolders --verb 10 mydir
57 pdfa -o outdir -c --noxml mydir my1.pdf folder/my2.pdf