Generally known, that one of strong sides of FastReport .NET is export of reports to various formats. Developers of the company actively introduce new products and upgrades. A new export to PDF/A format has been introduced recently. Unfortunately, not all customers its main purpose and how it works. This article deals with the format and the export of settings from FastReport .NET to PDF.
A well-known format of documents PDF (Portable Document Format) was invented a long time ago and has already deserved its popularity by providing a possibility to create documents and access them on any platform, for example, Windows, Linux, iOS etc. This advantage allows using PDF as a document archive. However, not all documents are appropriate to be archives. For example, if a document contains references or it uses specific fonts, which are not added to the document, or it uses media data, then such a document cannot be considered self-sufficient.
PDF/A has been created for ...