http://disqus.com/by/memckinney/enWed, 18 Feb 2009 20:33:50 -0000http://blog.nitropdf.com/2009/01/aiim-study-pdf-usage-organizations/#comment-6389105<p>If you convert or save PDF document according to the PDF/A standard, then fonts must be embedded within the PDF. But I believe this happens already with most digitally born PDF documents, so the file sizes should not increase in size when saving them as "PDF/A" files. However, PDF's created from scanned documents is different story. When dealing with "raster images" (or scanned images) the PDF/A standard doesn't require fonts to be embedded because the file doesn't contain text, just images of text. This does create a size problem: images of scanned documents can be quite large. Therefore, you want to make sure you use software to create PDF/A files that applies some of the newer MRC compression techniques to get the files down to a size that's manageable and adhere to the PDF/A standard.</p>memckinneyWed, 18 Feb 2009 20:33:50 -0000