veraPDF 0.14 drops with launch of demo website

Duff Johnson // May 5, 2016

veraPDF logo The veraPDF conformance checker for PDF/A has moved into a monthly release cycle, with the latest being version 0.14.

This is the first release of the final design phase which began on 19 April following the PREFORMA Project EC review at their Open Source Workshop.

This latest release features initial validation for all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A, including transparency and Unicode character map validation in PDF/A-2 levels B and U.

Feature updates in the conformance checker include:

added all transparency-related validation rules in PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3
added full Level U support in PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3
code refactoring to synchronize GUI, API and CLI interfaces
PDF/A-1B fix: check both Tiling patterns used as different fill and stroke colour spaces in the same painting operations
added initial versions of PDF/A-2U, PDF/A-2A, PDF/A-3U, PDF/A-3A validation profiles

The veraPDF test corpus gained an additional 65 atomic test files for PDF/A-2 specific requirements.

Demo website

A demo of the REST interface is available at http://demo.verapdf.org

Download veraPDF 0.14

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

Release notes

https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/releases/tag/v0.14.2

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Duff Johnson

PDF Association

Duff serves the PDF industry as ISO Project co-Leader and US TAG chair for both ISO 32000 (the PDF specification) and ISO 14289 (PDF/UA). As Executive Director of the PDF Association, Duff coordinates several working groups, speaks at a wide variety of industry events and promotes the advancement and adoption of PDF technology worldwide. An independent consultant, Duff Johnson is a veteran …