diff --git a/openpdf/src/main/java/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfAnnotation.java b/openpdf/src/main/java/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfAnnotation.java
index be7b16dfc..e409c5476 100644
--- a/openpdf/src/main/java/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfAnnotation.java
+++ b/openpdf/src/main/java/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfAnnotation.java
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ public PdfAnnotation(PdfWriter writer, Rectangle rect) {
     if (rect != null) {
       put(PdfName.RECT, new PdfRectangle(rect));
     }
+    addFKey();
   }
 
   /**
@@ -239,6 +240,7 @@ public PdfAnnotation(PdfWriter writer, float llx, float lly, float urx, float ur
     put(PdfName.T, title);
     put(PdfName.RECT, new PdfRectangle(llx, lly, urx, ury));
     put(PdfName.CONTENTS, content);
+    addFKey();
   }
 
   /**
@@ -259,6 +261,7 @@ public PdfAnnotation(PdfWriter writer, float llx, float lly, float urx, float ur
     put(PdfName.A, action);
     put(PdfName.BORDER, new PdfBorderArray(0, 0, 0));
     put(PdfName.C, new PdfColor(0x00, 0x00, 0xFF));
+    addFKey();
   }
 
   /**
@@ -1073,4 +1076,10 @@ public String toString() {
       return buf.toString();
     }
   }
+
+  private void addFKey() {
+      if (writer.isPdfA1()) {
+          put(PdfName.F, new PdfNumber(FLAGS_PRINT));
+      }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/openpdf/src/main/java/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfWriter.java b/openpdf/src/main/java/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfWriter.java
index 790c4e6e6..7940d93dc 100644
--- a/openpdf/src/main/java/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfWriter.java
+++ b/openpdf/src/main/java/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfWriter.java
@@ -1769,6 +1769,10 @@ public boolean isPdfX() {
         return pdfxConformance.isPdfX();
     }
 
+    public boolean isPdfA1() {
+        return pdfxConformance.isPdfA1();
+    }
+
 //  [C11] Output intents
     /**
      * Sets the values of the output intent dictionary. Null values are allowed to
diff --git a/openpdf/src/test/java/com/lowagie/text/validation/PDFValidationTest.java b/openpdf/src/test/java/com/lowagie/text/validation/PDFValidationTest.java
index 383712d6a..046242edc 100644
--- a/openpdf/src/test/java/com/lowagie/text/validation/PDFValidationTest.java
+++ b/openpdf/src/test/java/com/lowagie/text/validation/PDFValidationTest.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import com.lowagie.text.PageSize;
 import com.lowagie.text.Rectangle;
 import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.verapdf.core.ModelParsingException;
 import org.verapdf.gf.model.GFModelParser;
@@ -24,10 +25,12 @@
 public class PDFValidationTest {
 
     @Test
-    void validatePDFWithVera() throws Exception {
+    public void testValidatePDFWithVera() throws Exception {
         Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
         ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-        PdfWriter.getInstance(document, byteArrayOutputStream);
+        PdfWriter pdfWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, byteArrayOutputStream);
+        pdfWriter.setPDFXConformance(PdfWriter.PDFA1B);
+        pdfWriter.createXmpMetadata();
 
         try {
             document.open();
@@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ void validatePDFWithVera() throws Exception {
             document.close();
 
             // Create a veraPDF validator
-            PDFAFlavour flavour = PDFAFlavour.PDFA_1_A;
+            PDFAFlavour flavour = PDFAFlavour.PDFA_1_B;
             try (InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray());
                  GFModelParser parser = GFModelParser.createModelWithFlavour(inputStream, flavour)) {
                 PDFAValidator validator = ValidatorFactory.createValidator(flavour, false, 10);
@@ -56,6 +59,7 @@ void validatePDFWithVera() throws Exception {
                     }
 
                 }
+                Assertions.assertTrue(result.isCompliant());
             }
         } catch (ModelParsingException e) {
             e.printStackTrace();