veraPDF 0.8 released!
December 23, 2015
veraPDF 0.8 includes several updated features and a variety of bug-fixes.
About Duff Johnson
As CEO, Duff coordinates industry activities and promotes the advancement and adoption of PDF technology worldwide.
The veraPDF consortium has announced the 0.8 release of the veraPDF PDF/A validation software and test-suite.
This beta release features a command line interface for validation and feature extraction, with supporting install scripts.
Features
- Refactored plug-in architecture.
- Re-designed command line interface for PDF/A validation and feature reporting.
- Updated validation profile syntax.
- Simplified machine-readable report format.
Most significant bug fixes
- Comparison of Info dictionary and XMP metadata (PDF/A-1);
- Support for missing resources and resource inheritance mechanism (PDF/A-1); and
- Parsing TrueType fonts with zero-length tables.
Infrastructure
- Installer adds command line scripts.
- Refactored integration tests.
- Synchronization with PDFBox 2.0 RC1 library
Download veraPDF 0.8 at: http://downloads.verapdf.org/rel/verapdf-installer.zip
Release notes are available. A basic guide for the desktop interface is provided to help you get started. If you encounter problems, or wish to make suggestions, please add them to the projects GitHub issue tracker.
Further details are outlined in our development roadmap.