Enforce PDF compliance with ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A)

Allows enforcement of ISO 19005-1 compliance in PDF output. The values for his setting are as follows:

Default: Options UI defaults to not ISO compliant. User may override.

Encourage: Options UI defaults to ISO compliance. User may override.

Prevent: Not ISO compliant. No user override.

Enforce: ISO compliant. No user override.

See Office Help for more details on the tradeoffs of choosing ISO 19005 compliance.

Supported on: At least Windows 7




  1. Default
    Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\fixedformat
    Value Nameuseiso19005-1
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value0
  2. Encourage
    Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\fixedformat
    Value Nameuseiso19005-1
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value1
  3. Prevent
    Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\fixedformat
    Value Nameuseiso19005-1
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value2
  4. Enforce
    Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
    Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\fixedformat
    Value Nameuseiso19005-1
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value3


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