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What is PDF/A?
PDF/A Settings
To navigate to the PDF/A Settings go to the File Formats tab, choose the PDF/A file format, and click PDF settings. The “PDF settings…” button on the File Formats tab will display a dialog that allows you to specify a number of settings for the printed PDF/A document. Settings can be categorized into two main sections. |
File descriptions
Supported document compression types
It is possible to compress PDF/A documents in order to reduce the file size and thus lower storage or transportation costs. Compression can be either lossy or lossless. Black Ice Printer Drivers provide the following compression methods:
Stream Compression Filter: Compression type of the non-image streams. Compression Filters; None, no compression algorithm will be used. Flate is a lossless compression method. Flate works well on images with large areas of single colors or repeating patterns.
Run Length Encoding (RLE) is also a lossless compression option that produces the best results for images that contain large areas of solid white or black. JPEG is a lossy compression algorithm that has been conceived to reduce the file size of natural, photographic-like true-color images as much as possible without affecting the quality of the image as experienced by the human eye and nervous sytem. CCITT Fax is also a lossless compression option. CCITT stands for “International Coordinating Committee for Telephony and Telegraphy”. CCITT Fax compression is the appropriate compression method for black-and-white images made by paint programs and any images scanned with an image depth of 1 bit. |