This repo contains output files of Adobe Acrobat Preflight and Apache Preflight (part of the PDFBox library) for a selection of the test PDFs on Adobe's Acrobat Engineering website. The following files were analysed:
- all files in the General section of the Font Testing category;
- all files in the Classic Multimedia section of the Multimedia & 3D Tests category (and a couple of files in the 3D section as well).
Software versions:
| Software | Version |
|---|---|
| Apache Preflight | 2.0.0 |
| Adobe Acrobat | 10.14 |
| Acrobat Preflight | 10.1.3 (090) |
- Acrobat Preflight was run using the PDF/A-1b profile
- Apache Prelight was run with xml output switch.
Acrobat Preflight output in PDF format; Apache Preflight output in XML format.
For a discussion of these results, see my blog post Identification of PDF preservation risks: the sequel:
http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2013-07-25-identification-pdf-preservation-risks-sequel