Does anybody know how to generate a PDF/A document or convert an existing PDF (using Lucee)?

i just did a bunch of PDF generation work using CFDOCUMENT to convert HTML to PDF and it worked pretty good (using the more recent Flying Saucer engine), any specific questions? (i haven't done PDF conversion)

We've had some joy with using Playwright to convert HTML to PDF. You get great looking PDFs that support latest browser CSS etc, but you are limited in number of pages before it can't handle it.

PDF/A is a specific format which can not be generated by using cfdocument afaik

ah, gotcha, sorry missed the /A part

there is a java lib from Spire which actually doesn't generate a valid PDF/A

Is this for XFA forms? You'll need PDF/A-2 for that I think.

It is a EU standard for electronic invoices which will become mandatory next year (https://www.mustangproject.org/)

does Adobe Coldfusion support it? If so maybe worth to have 1 paid instance to generate these

That library says "Converts any PDF to PDF/A-3" under "Mustang Server"

the only other one i can think of is Jasper Reports, looks like they may have support https://community.jaspersoft.com/forums/topic/47745-does-jasperreports-support-pdfa-3/ https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/jasperreports/issues/457

maybe I'm missing some but I could not use normal pdf as input (but I used the java impl)

we used Jasper as replacement for CF Report Builder when switched from Adobe to Lucee

yes, we did for a while as well

lol - ya it has its moments 😉

Looks like you need the run the server to do it https://www.mustangproject.org/server/

thanks, I will check that

PDF/A is supported in Adobe ColdFusion 2023+ only, using HTMLtoPDF https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/coldfusion-tags/tags-g-h/cfhtmltopdf.html We support PDF/A-1a or PDF/A-3a conformant files, as well as other PDF/A subformats.

Good to know, I will check that as well

We've used this. It is very easy to use. https://gotenberg.dev/docs/routes#convert-into-pdfa--pdfua-route

Wow, that‘s pretty cool, will try