veraPDF 0.18 Release

Version 0.18 (June 5, 2016)

This beta release provides fixes for PDF/A Validation, enhanced functionality & usability fixes for the application, and additions to the test corpus. It also marks the launch of our beta documentation site.

Application enhancements:

• suppress all PDFBox warnings in the CLI interface when parsing PDF documents
• generate error report instead of the exception in case of broken PDF documents
• added a new CLI option to save XML report to a separate file in recursive PDF processing

veraPDF characterisation plugins

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

Conformance checker fixes:

• ignore DeviceGray color space in soft mask images
• treat glyph with GID 0 as “.notdef” in case of Type0 fonts
• fixed validation of role map for non-standard structure elements (Level A)
• fixed validation of page size implementation limits in case of negative width or height
• fixed validation of non-standard embedded CMaps referenced from other CMaps

Test corpus:

• added 180 new test files for parts 2 and 3

Infrastructure

• test coverage now monitored by Codecov online service
• integration tests for 2u and 3b validation profiles added
• using codacy and covertiy online code QA services