Convert PDF to PDF/A via command line with a default profile, without GUI

[pidieff24]

Hi there,

I would like to convert an existing PDF document (standard 1.7) to PDF/A on the command line. I have a working example for the case where I create a profile in the registry, but I would like to trigger the conversion based on one of the default profiles, e.g. "default/best" and one or more "-profileParam" arguments. Therefore my questions:

• is there a list of available profileParam arguments?
• if this list is equivalent to the keys in the registry for user defined profiles, then I can say that the argument "pdf-standard" does not work

Your help is very much appreiated, thank you!

Regards

[PDF24 Support]

Hello,

sorry for the late reply. There is no separate list yet, but the keys for -profileParam are the same as the values of a user profile in the registry, as you assumed. They override the values of any profile, also of a built-in one.

That pdf-standard did not work with a built-in profile was a bug: the PDF/A conversion failed when no PDF/A color profile was given. This is fixed since version 11.31.0. With the current version this works:

"C:\Program Files\PDF24\pdf24-DocTool.exe" -applyProfile -profile default/best -profileParam pdf-standard a-2 -silent -outputFile "C:\out\file.pdf" "C:\in\file.pdf"

Possible values for pdf-standard are a-1, a-2, a-3, a-4 and a-4f (PDF/A), x-3 (PDF/X-3) and 1.2 to 1.7. With -silent (also since 11.31.0) no window is shown; errors are reported via the exit code.

Details in the manual:

• https://creator.pdf24.org/manual/11/#1114-apply-a-profile-to-input-files
• https://creator.pdf24.org/manual/11/#1111-general-format-and-options

Single files can also be converted online: https://tools.pdf24.org/en/pdf-to-pdfa

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