If you've been working with tagged pdf files in Adobe Acrobat, you may have noticed an annoying banner that it displays at the top of the window whenever it opens a tagged pdf file: "This file claims compliance with the PDF/A standard and has been opened read-only to prevent modification". If this banner were only in the default view of Acrobat it might be more easily ignored, but it has no checkbox to make it go away and remains visible even in presentation mode (like, if you're trying to present a lecture using a tagged pdf file). The only obvious way to make it go away is to click a button labeled "enable editing", which you might think you don't want to do.
It turns out (via https://bwsd.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/remove-this-file-claims-compliance-with-the-pdf-a-standard-banner-from-adobe-acrobat/) that you can disable these banners entirely. In the preferences window for Acrobat, go to the "Documents" page and change the setting for "PDF/A View Mode" from "Only for PDF/A documents" to "Never". I suspect that this also disables the automatic read-only setting for these files but I don't think that's a problem.
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