veraPDF 0.20 now available

Duff Johnson // August 4, 2016

veraPDF logo The latest interim release of veraPDF shipped on August 1, 2016.

The beta of the veraPDF documentation site is up, and feedback in requested! The site provides installation and usage guides for those getting started with veraPDF.

veraPDF 0.20 has the following fixes and enhancements:

Application enhancements

added signature types to features report
depth of feature reporting now configurable
altered log level of some validation methods

veraPDF characterisation plugins

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

Conformance checker fixes

fix for validation of character encoding requirements of invisible fonts
fix for ICC Profile mluc tag

Test corpus

34 new test files for PDF/A-2b

Infrastructure

No changes in this release

Download veraPDF 0.20:

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

Release notes:

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

Please support our efforts by downloading and testing the software. If you encounter problems, or wish to suggest improvements, please add them to the projects GitHub issue tracker. Your feedback is very important, it helps to improve the software.

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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 …