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veraPDF now supports PDF/A-4

Excerpt: The latest veraPDF adds support for PDF/A-4, the archival subset specification for PDF 2.0.

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Announcement

January 24, 2022
by PDF Association staff

The latest release of veraPDF, the industry-supported, open source PDF/A validator and a key component of the Open Preservation Foundation’s reference toolset, is now available.

New in version 1.20

January 20, 2021

Application

  • added support for PDF/A-4 including conformance levels F (file attachments) and E (engineering)
  • added more informative logs in batch processing
  • added new parameter to specify the default validation profile in case of missing standard identification in XMP metadata

PDF Model

  • extended the model to support PDF/A-4 rules

PDF Parser

  • more robust handling of malicious PDF documents
  • improved parsing of PostScript and CFF fonts

Validation

  • allow empty Lang Alt arrays in XMP metadata
  • excluded All and None colorants from the PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 requirement to have the same tintTransform and alternateSpace
  • disabled JPEG2000 colr box checks in case of explicitly defined ColorSpace in the Image dictionary
  • fixed validation of predefined XMP value types if they are redefined in the extension schema
  • validate XMP URL type as Text
  • fixed CIDSet and CharSet validation for PDF/A-1
  • fixed validation of the permissions dictionary in PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3
  • added validation of Lang against RFC 1766 regular expression
  • fixed validaiton of permitted transfer functions in Halftone dictionaries

Corpus

  • added test corpus of ~600 new atomic documents covering PDF/A-4 specification
  • extended PDF/A-2u tests on ToUnicode mapping and character encodings in simple fonts

Core library

  • added support of Java versions from 11 to 16
  • fixed validation of documents with non-PDF extension in multi-process mode

Feedback!

If you encounter problems, or would like to suggest improvements, please add them to the project’s GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/issues.