Hello,
There's no built-in option for exporting as PDF to a network location, but you can use an SDK Script activity within Workflow to some document types to PDF, and PDF/A is one of the options.
It would look something like this
// Build a list of watermarks and add tag watermarks associated with the document
List<WatermarkSpecification> watermarks = new List<WatermarkSpecification>();
foreach(TagWatermark w in doc.GetTagWatermarks()){
watermarks.Add(new WatermarkSpecification(w.WatermarkText,w.WatermarkTextSize,w.WatermarkRotation,w.WatermarkPosition,String.Empty,0,String.Empty,0,w.WatermarkIntensity));
}
// Initialize document exporter
DocumentExporter dExp = new DocumentExporter();
// Configure document exporter settings
dExp.CompressionQuality = compression;
dExp.IncludeAnnotations = true;
dExp.BlackoutRedactions = true;
dExp.PageFormat = DocumentPageFormat.Jpeg;
dExp.Watermarks = watermarks;
// Set PDF export options to flatten annotations and include searchable text
PdfExportOptions ExportOptions = PdfExportOptions.RenderAnnotationsAsImage | PdfExportOptions.IncludeText | PdfExportOptions.PdfAConformance;
// Export PDF
dExp.ExportPdf(doc, doc.AllPages, ExportOptions, file);
Note the PdfExportOptions.PdfAConformance option being set for the ExportOptions.