veraPDF 0.28 – last version before the 1.0 release!

The final beta-release of veraPDF is now available for public use.

This is the final version before the 1.0 release on January 9th 2017, so it's effectively a release candidate. The 1.0 release is required by PREFORMA in order to initiate Phase 3 testing and acceptance, which runs from February 1 - July 30, 2017.

We hope to see substantial end-user and industry testing of the software to help us find remaining bugs and make necessary and/or desirable enhancements within the PREFORMA-contracted period.

New features in the 0.28 release include the schematron-based policy checker and a fully functional greenfield implementation of a PDF parser. For the upcoming version 1.0 we’ll be:

• performing software fixes in response to issues raised on GitHub: https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/issues;
• reviewing the API and adding JavaDoc for remaining public methods;
• improving our documentation; and
• making changes to our test and build systems.

The full list of changes in this release include:

Application Enhancements

• schematron-based policy checker:
  • example policy schemas: https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-policy-docs/tree/master/Schemas; and
  • policy functionality available in CLI and GUI;
• greenfield implementation of feature extraction;
• greenfield implementation of metadata fixer;
• GUI now supports checking multiple files or a directory;
• HTML summary report for multiple file results;
• single-file detailed report containing policy and feature information; and
• stability improvements and performance optimization of the greenfield parser.

Conformance checker

• fixed glyph width checks in case of exactly 1/1000 point difference;
• fixed default color space processing for Indexed color spaces;
• fixed Order array support for OCG checks in PDF/A-2; and
• fixed Unicode character maps support for PDF/A-1 Level A.

Once again, we ask users to review the veraPDF documentation site for installation and user guides and provide feedback.

Download veraPDF 0.28

PDFBox version: https://software.verapdf.org/

"Greenfield" PDF parser version:

Release notes

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

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If you encounter problems or would like to suggest improvements, please add them to the veraPDF consortium's GitHub issue tracker.

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