Archiving

Your PDF files may need to be archived for security or legal reasons. In this case, the generated file must be compliant to the PDF/A ISO standard.

How to Allow Document Archiving

To make your documents archive-able (PDF/A compliant), do the following:

The archiving standard requires that all the fonts be embedded in the PDF. To force font embedding, you have to specify fonts for all elements and for all page margin boxes in your customization CSS. For instance, you can use:

body { font-family: Arial }

@page {
    @top-left {font-family: Arial }
    @top-right {font-family: Arial }
    @top-center {font-family: Arial }
    @top-left-corner {font-family: Arial }
    @top-right-corner {font-family: Arial }
    
    @bottom-left {font-family: Arial }
    @bottom-right {font-family: Arial }
    @bottom-center {font-family: Arial }
    @bottom-left-corner {font-family: Arial }
    @bottom-right-corner {font-family: Arial }
}

Create a new transformation scenario, based on the DITA Map PDF - based on HTML5 & CSS built-in scenario.
In the Parameters tab, select a value for the pdf.archiving.mode parameter from the list.
Run the transformation scenario.