Implementing PDF/A-2 ?

[jwkaltz]

Hi,
JasperReports supports PDF/A-1, but not yet the newer standard PDF/A-2.
Are there already plans to implement that? Or a first estimation of what that would imply?

Thanks for any insight on this,
Wolfgang

[ari]

iText 7 supports pdf/a-2 and 3. If you use that instead of iText 2.1.7 will that do what you need?

[thetuxinator]

Any update on this? We would also be interested in the newer PDF/A Versions, as they bring transparency support

[thetuxinator]

By browsing the code, i discovered in ivy.xml the dependency points to org="com.lowagie" name="itext" rev="2.1.7.js11-2-SNAPSHOT" as itext seems to be at version 7.2.4 and you point to a snapshot version, shouldn't it be upgraded to use a later itext version?

[thetuxinator]

Instead of switching to OpenPDF it could help to switch to the Itext 7 AGPL Version, a comparison can be found here: https://itextpdf.com/how-buy because Itext 7 comes with PDF/A-2 support

[teodord]

Hi,

If you are interested in iText 7+, then maybe you should check this exporter here:
https://github.com/Jaspersoft/jasperreports-pdf-lib7

You probably know that AGPL licenses do now allow use in commercial software, so you need to purchase iText 7 license, unless your product is also AGPL.

I hope this helps.
Teodor