veraPDF 1.4 Release

Version 1.4 (April 20, 2017)

Conformance Checker:

• significant optimisation of performance in the greenfield PDF parser
• fixed parsing of embedded PS Type1 fonts
• fixed default value of WMode entry for embedded CMaps
• fixed inline image data parsing
• fixed digital signature parsing

Reporting:

• refactored feature extraction
• pretty formatted XML reports
• clearer XML structure in veraPDF reports
• improvements to the HTML reports

Policy Checker:

• added GUI wizard for creating custom policy files

Infrastructure

• release artefacts now deployed to Maven Central
• started the transfer to external static code QA service

Test corpus:

• aligned the existing veraPDF corpus and added 80 new test files to cover Technical Working Group resolutions