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[Violation] The F key in the Annot dictionary is missing or has an invalid value.

Jun 14, 2012 11:48 AM

Categories: Windows Tags: #pdf/a-1b

I tried to search the forum and google for an answer with no luck. So I just created a new discussion.

 

Our client ask us to re-create our old files to be compliant to PDF/A-1b. I tried to use the default settings of Acrobat distiller 9 which is "PDF/A-1b:2005 (RGB)". However, upon distilling our old postscript files, we encountered this error:

 

"[Violation] The F key in the Annot dictionary is missing or has an invalid value."

 

This error only shows up if postscript have link annotations. For those without links, output pdf has been generated.

 

My question is, are links not allowed in PDF/A-1b? If this is allowed, is there any solution or pdfmark that we can add to solve this error? Hope someone can help me on this. Thanks!

614 Views   8 Replies   Latest reply: Suprem026, Jun 15, 2012 8:11 AM
 
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  • George Johnson
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    1. George Johnson,
    Jun 14, 2012 12:22 PM   in reply to Suprem026
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    Link annotations are allowed in PDF/A. Can you look at the postscript source to see what the value of the annotation's F key is, if anything?

     
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    2. Suprem026,
    Jun 14, 2012 12:42 PM   in reply to George Johnson
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    Thanks George for the quick response! There is no F keys. I tried to add "/F 4" after /Dest but still error is still the same.

     
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  • George Johnson
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    3. George Johnson,
    Jun 14, 2012 12:54 PM   in reply to Suprem026
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    I'm afraid I can't help much. The F key is optional, and the value defaults to 0. Did you check them all?

     
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    4. Suprem026,
    Jun 14, 2012 1:07 PM   in reply to George Johnson
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    I found this one:  "[/F 4 /PageMode /UseOutlines /Page 1 /View [/FitH 1297] /DOCVIEW pdfmark"

     
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  • George Johnson
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    5. George Johnson,
    Jun 14, 2012 1:30 PM   in reply to Suprem026
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    That looks like it's setting the initial view parameters (document open action), not creating a link annotation. You might try getting rid of that F key and see what happens. I don't think it belongs there.

     
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    6. Suprem026,
    Jun 14, 2012 1:51 PM   in reply to George Johnson
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    Nothing happens. Can you please at least provide a sample of pdfmark with F key parameter which is acceptable in PDF/A-1b distiller settings?

     
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  • Bernd Alheit
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    7. Bernd Alheit,
    Jun 15, 2012 2:19 AM   in reply to Suprem026
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    The Document Open Options (DOCVIEW) doesn't use the F key. Use something like this:

    [/PageMode /UseOutlines /Page 1 /View [/FitH 1297] /DOCVIEW pdfmark

    In Bookmarks (OUT) you can use the F key. The value must be 0, 1, 2, or 3.

     
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    8. Suprem026,
    Jun 15, 2012 8:11 AM   in reply to Bernd Alheit
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    Thanks Bernd! But the error appears in /LNK. When I removed them manually in postscript, it successfully created a PDF file. Here is a sample pdfmark:

     

    [/Dest /CR1 /Rect [6849 7364 6937 7188] /Border [0 0 0] /LNK pdfmark

     
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