Supported input formats and output PDF formats

Following table provides a list of all the input file formats supported by KFXConverter and the respective output (PDF or PDF/A) formats.

Input file formats

Output PDF formats

Output PDF/A formats

DOC, DOCX, DOT, DOTX, ODT, DOCM

PDF 1.5

PDFA1a

PDFA1b

PDFA2a

PDFA2b

PDFA2u

PDFA3a

PDFA3b

PDFA3u

XLS, XSLX, XLM, XLT, XLTX, XLSB, XLAM, CSV, ODS , TSV

PDF 1.4

PPT, PPTX, PPTM, POTX, ODP

PDF 1.5

MHT file

PDF 1.5

MPP, ONE, VSD

The .mpp files created using Microsoft Project 98 or earlier are not supported by Aspose.

PDF 1.4

HTML, HTM

PDF 1.5

PDF-1.2 to PDF-1.7

Not supported

TXT, LOG

PDF 1.5

VCF

PDF 1.5

XPS and OXPS

PDF 1.4

If the content of the input PDF file does not meet the criteria to be converted to the required PDF/A format, the format of the output PDF/A may be downgraded. For example:

  • If the input file contains text that is not extractable and the output is configured to PDF/A-2u, the actual output will be downgraded to PDF/A­2b.

  • If the input does not contain logical structure information (that is, tagging) and the output is configured to PDF/A­1a, the actual output will be downgraded to PDF/A­1b.

This applies only to the files which are convertible to a PDF/A complaint file.

The following table summarizes the configured output in KC Plug-In, the expected PDF/A format of the output file, and the actual PDF/A format of the output file based on the contents of the input file.

Input PDF version Configured PDF/A format for output Expected PDF/A format of output Actual PDF/A format of output in case of downgrade Output PDF version
PDF version 1.3

PDF version 1.5

PDF version 1.6

PDF version 1.7

PDF version 1.8

PDF/A-1a PDF/A-1a PDF/A-1b 1.4
PDF/A-1b PDF/A-1b PDF/A-1b 1.4
PDF/A-2a PDF/A-2a PDF/A-2u 1.7
PDF/A-2b PDF/A-2b PDF/A-2b 1.7
PDF/A-2u PDF/A-2u PDF/A-2u 1.7
PDF/A-3a PDF/A-3a PDF/A-3u 1.7
PDF/A-3b PDF/A-3b PDF/A-3u 1.7
PDF/A-3u PDF/A-3u PDF/A-3u 1.7