veraPDF 0.18 released

The latest version of veraPDF is now available for download. In addition, the veraPDF documentation site is now in beta - feedback in requested! The site provides installation and user guides to help users get started with veraPDF.

veraPDF 0.18 has the following fixes and enhancements:

Application enhancements

• suppress all PDFBox warnings in the CLI interface when parsing PDF documents
• generate error report instead of the exception in case of broken PDF documents
• added a new CLI option to save XML report to a separate file in recursive PDF processing

veraPDF characterisation plugins

• enhancements to example pure java plugins
• plugins now configurable through a dedicated config file

Conformance checker fixes

• ignore DeviceGray color space in soft mask images
• treat glyph with GID 0 as “.notdef” in case of Type0 fonts
• fixed validation of role map for non-standard structure elements (Level A)
• fixed validation of page size implementation limits in case of negative width or height
• fixed validation of non-standard embedded CMaps referenced from other CMaps

Test corpus

• added 180 test files for parts 2 and 3

Infrastructure

• test coverage now monitored by Codecov
• added integration tests for PDF/A-2u and PDF/A-3b validation profiles
• code QA now includes codacy and coverity services

Download veraPDF 0.18:

http://downloads.verapdf.org/rel/verapdf-installer.zip

Release notes:

https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/releases/latest

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