PDFa Metanorma documents

These documents belong to the PDF Association (PDFa).

Document identifiers

The PDF Association utilize document identifiers in the following manner:

PDFa {document-type-abbrev} {numeric-string-identifier}:{copyright-year} ({version})

Where,

{document-type-abbrev}

Abbreviation for the document type

AN

Application Note

BPG

Best Practice Guide

TN

Technical Note

Specification

{numeric-string-identifier}

Numeric or string identifier, some documents are identified by numbers and some by unique short names.

• AN 003 is Application Note 003

• TN 0010 is Technical Note 0010

• BPG tagged-pdf-syntax is Best Practice Guide for the Tagged PDF Syntax

• wtpdf is the Specification for Well-Tagged PDF

{copyright-year}

Copyright year in 4-digits.

{version}

Version of the document, in the format {major}.{minor}.{patch}.

• 1.2.0 is version 1.2.0

Examples of document identifiers are given below:

PDFa AN hdr-faq:2025 (1.0.0) PDFa AN 003:2021 (1.0.0) PDFa AN ppm:2024 (1.0.0) PDFa BPG tagged-pdf-syntax:2023 (1.1.0) PDFa wtpdf:2024 (1.0.0) PDFa TN 0010:2017 (1.0.0)

Structure

sources/

Source of the documents.

sources/an-hdr-faq/

(PDFa AN hdr-faq:2025 (1.0.0)) Application Note: FAQ on HDR in PDF: Focus on PDF/A and PDF/X.

sources/an-pdf20-001/

(PDFa AN 001:2018 (1.0.0)) Application Note: PDF 2.0 001 Usage of Black Point Compensation

sources/an-pdf20-002/

(PDFa AN 002:2018 (1.0.0)) Application Note: PDF 2.0 002 Associated Files

sources/an-pdf20-003/

(PDFa AN 003:2021 (1.0.0)) Application Note: PDF 2.0 003 Clarification on locations for object metadata streams

sources/an-ppm/

(PDFa AN ppm:2024 (1.0.0)) Application Note: Use of standard Print Product Metadata (PPM) with PDF

sources/bpg-pdfua-conform/

(PDFa BPG pdfa-ua:2025 (1.0.0)) Best Practice Guide: Conforming to both PDF/A & PDF/UA

sources/bpg-tagged-pdf-syntax/

(PDFa BPG tagged-pdf-syntax:2023 (1.1.0)) Best Practice Guide: Tagged PDF Best Practice Guide: Syntax

sources/spec-eapdf/

(PDFa eapdf:2024 (1.0.0)) Specification: EA-PDF v1.0 Specification: An archival email format based on PDF/A

sources/spec-wtpdf/

(PDFa wtpdf:2024 (1.0.0)) Specification: Well-Tagged PDF (WTPDF) 1.0

sources/spec-pdf-declarations/

(PDFa pdf-declarations:2024 (1.2.0)) Specification: PDF Declarations: A use of ISO 32000

sources/tn-0010/

(PDFa TN 0010:2017 (1.0.0)) Technical Note 0010: Clarifications of ISO 19005, parts 1-3 for developers of PDF/A creators and validators

reference-docs/

Reference documents.

_site/

(automatically generated) published documents.

Usage (general)

Quick start

The easy way if you install locally:

git clone https://github.com/metanorma/mn-samples-pdfa/
bundle
bundle exec metanorma sources/spec-wtpdf-1.0//document.adoc
# => sources/pdfa-wtpdf-1.0//document.{html,xml,pdf}

Installing Metanorma

See https://www.metanorma.org

Building a single document

bundle exec metanorma sources/pdfa-wtpdf-1.0//document.adoc
# or
bundle exec metanorma sources/pdfa-pdf20-an001/document.adoc
# or
# bundle exec metanorma sources/pdfa-tn-04-2018/document.adoc

This command outputs the built document at:

• sources/{document-dir}/document.{html,pdf,xml}

Building the full site

bundle exec metanorma site generate

This command creates _site/. The HTML entry point is at _site/index.html.

License and copyright

Content: PDF Association.

Code and others: Ribose.