Assembler and PDF/A ??

We have Adobe LC ES2 SP2 and froms Server service license.

Well, we need to convert PDF to PDF / A, we are trying to use the Assembler service.

In the documentation "in Acrobat 9 and PDF/A-1 LiveCycle ES" (http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/livecycle/pdfs/readercomp_pdfa.pdf), page 2, "Available tools ", there is a table where it says:

Source / Tool / ---- Function ----- Usage --- 1a -1b

LC ES / Assembler / conversion / automated / no / yes

LC ES / Assembler / validated -/ automated / no / yes

From this we can deduce that using the Assembler service can convert and validate PDF/A-1b.

However, the tests we have made ??in this regard, by IVS utility not seem to work, and server-side errors are generated.

We are trying to validate (using the Assembler service) a very simple PDF, which also meets PDF/A-1b know that, which we found through:

DDX: [<DDX xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/DDX/1.0/">

<DocumentInformation result="info" source="doc1" />

</DDX>]

Response: [<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<DocInfo xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/DDX/DocInfo/1.0/">

  <Title/>

  <Author>Javier Padrn Mrida</Author>

  <CreatedDate>2012-01-23T15:05:31Z</CreatedDate>

  <ModifiedDate>2012-01-23T15:06:21Z</ModifiedDate>

  <Creator>Acrobat PDFMaker 8.1 para Word</Creator>

  <Producer>Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 (Windows)</Producer>

  <Version>1.4</Version>

  <NumPages>1</NumPages>

  <PDFAConformance isCompliant="notValidated" compliance="PDF/A-1b"/>

  <FormType>NotAForm</FormType>

  <PageSizes>

    <PageSize pages="1-1" width="595.22pt" height="842.0pt"/>

  </PageSizes>

  <PageRotations>

    <PageRotation pages="1-1" rotate90="0"/>

  </PageRotations>

  <PageLabels>

    <PageLabel pages="1-1" start="1" format="Decimal"/>

  </PageLabels>

</DocInfo>]

As expected PDFAConformance is PDF/A-1b ... But if we modify the DDX for detailed validation:

DDX: [<DDX xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/DDX/1.0/">

<DocumentInformation result="info" source="doc1">

<PDFAValidation

ignoreUnusedResources="true"

resultLevel="Detailed"/>

</DocumentInformation>

</DDX>]

Response: [[object Object]

null]

We tested with different types of PDF and in any case the Assembler service seems to be able to process the labels "PDFAValidation" or "PDFAProfile", the server side we get:

[com.adobe.livecycle.assembler.client.OperationException: ALC-ASM-S00-002: Failed to execute the DDX - error messages provided. Caused by: com.adobe.internal.ddxm.ValidationException: DDXM_S00003: The DDX did not pass validation against the specification. Check the job log for details.; nested exception is:

com.adobe.livecycle.assembler.client.OperationException: ALC-ASM-S00-002: Failed to execute the DDX - error messages provided.

at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:222)

...

faultDetail: com.adobe.internal.ddxm.ddx.DDX.logInvalidMessage DDXM_S23001: Element PDFAValidation is invalid since document conversion is not enabled.]

So finally the question is: Is it possible to generate any type of PDF / A using only the Assembler service?