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[Users] Release Notes, minor versions, and roadmap
by Adam Brin 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

Hi, is there a good place to find accurate information on changes and bug-fixes beyond the GitHub changelog? The download on the website is 1.8.4, the latest in GitHub seems to be 1.8.1 and I can’t seem to find any reference in the release notes to what’s been updated or a GitHub project that has a tag beyond 1.8.1. Can someone help point me in the right direction? We have PDFs that went from Invalid to Valid between these versions. Also, the roadmap seems to have been long surpassed, is there any plan on updating it? thanks, adam -- _________________________________________________________ Adam Brin Director of Technology, Digital Antiquity 480.965.1278

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[Users] VeraPDF results / PDF/A questions
by Adam Brin 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

We’ve been evaluating different tools that might create PDF/A files for our digital archive and are having a hard time interpreting the results from VeraPDF from two different directions. First, in our real-world tests of ABBYY FineReader, Adobe Acrobat, and Ghostscript, not all of the tools produces a valid PDF/A file according to VeraPDF (though we’ve had problems with each), which is perfectly fine (and not something that is a fault of the tool), but it presents the following questions: 1. Can VeraPDF highlight the relative severity of the error? Or is there info available about the relative severity of an uncalibrated color space vs. undocumented operators in a content stream 2. Are there recommendations for batch tools to fix PDFs that you might suggest? 3. Are there better tools that you’ve found for batch creating PDF/As that you might suggest? thanks in advance, adam brin -- _________________________________________________________ Adam Brin Director of Technology, Digital Antiquity 480.965.1278

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[Users] veraPDF 1.8 released
by Becky McGuinness 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

The latest version of veraPDF is now available to download. This release includes new PDF information in the features report and automatic configuration of the features extractor when applying custom policy profiles. There are also a number of low level PDF fixes and improvements which are documented in the latest release notes: https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/releases/latest. This is the final release of veraPDF under the PREFORMA project. From September, veraPDF will make the transition from a funded project to a stand alone open source project. *Download veraPDF* http://downloads.verapdf.org/rel/verapdf-installer.zip *Help improve veraPDF* Most of the changes in this release are in response to the constructive feedback we’ve received from our users. Testing and user feedback is key to improving the software. Please download and use the latest release. If you experience problems, or wish to suggest improvements, please add them to the project’s GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/issues or post them to our user mailing list: http://lists.verapdf.org/listinfo/users. *Getting started* User guides and documentation are published at: http://docs.verapdf.org. *Save the date!* Join us for our next webinar on 30 August ‘Life after PREFORMA, the future of veraPDF’. Registration opening soon. *About* veraPDF is an open source, industry supported PDF/A validator. The veraPDF consortium (http://verapdf.org/) is funded by the PREFORMA project ( http://www.preforma-project.eu/). PREFORMA (PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives) is a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme. The project’s main aim is to address the challenge of implementing standardised file formats for preserving digital objects in the long term, giving memory institutions full control over the acceptance and management of preservation files into digital repositories. -- Becky McGuinness | Community Manager @openpreserve | Skype: becky.mcguinness1 *Open Preservation Foundation* *http://openpreservation.org/ <http://openpreservation.org/>* To find out more about becoming an OPF member or software supporter visit: http://openpreservation.org/about/join/

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[Users] Use of veraPDf
by Adrian Suter smaps GmbH 06 Aug '17

06 Aug '17

Hi there I'm new on using veraPDF and have some basic problems. I want to use veraPDF in my own software and tried the following, - Download the veraPDF-library, mvn clean install and added the jar to my pom.xml - I followed the steps described on http://docs.verapdf.org/develop/ - Tried first with Greenfield validation model and later on the PDFBox validation model - With both there were several jars missing (org/mozilla/javascript/Scriptable; org/verapdf/model/baselayer/Object; and so on) So I'm quite sure, that I'm doing something completely wrong L Can please somebody help me, - which projects to download exactly - how to configure/implement it to my code Thanks a lot, best regards Adrian Suter smaps GmbH Diessbachstrasse 2, 3253 Schnottwil Mobil +41 (0)79 945 91 01 <mailto:adrian.suter@smaps.ch> adrian.suter(a)smaps.ch

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by Marie Holmes 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

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[Users] Schematron validation in plugins?
by Jochen Staerk 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

Hi, I based my ZUGFeRD validation plugin (https://github.com/ZUGFeRD/ZUV) for veraPDF 1.6.3 on the embeddedFilesSample plugin in. I'd now like to perform the actual validation against the ZUGFeRD schematron, more precisely against the generated XSL file. I included ph-schematron as dependency, which will throw me noClassFound-Runtime exceptions if I only include it in the pom. I tried to solve that by shading the apparently required classes into the JAR. The issue is: if I do, I will inevitably run into a Nullpointerexception. I left one comment in the pom.xml and two in src/main/java/ZUV/ZUGFeRDExtractor.java in the current master [37794a4] which, if removed, should perform the validation but previously run into the NullPointerException at org.verapdf.processor.FeaturesPluginsLoader.initializeExtractor(FeaturesPluginsLoader.java:132) . Can someone please help? Is veraPDF using ph-schematron as well? If there was a way to invoke the veraPDF schematron validation functionality from within a plugin that would remove some redundancy and my plugin would shrink in size. thanks and kind regards Jochen

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[Users] veraPDF 1.6 released
by Becky McGuinness 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

The latest release of veraPDF is available to download. The validation logic and test corpus of veraPDF 1.6 have been updated to comply with the resolutions of the PDF Association’s PDF Validation Technical Working Group (TWG). The TWG brings together PDF technology experts to analyse PDF validation issues in a transparent way. It also connects veraPDF to the ISO committee responsible for PDF/A. The GUI and command line applications feature a new update checker which lets you know if you are running the latest version of the software. If you’re using the GUI application select “Help->Check for updates”, command line users type “verapdf --version -v” to ensure you have the latest features and fixes. Other fixes and improvements are documented in the release notes: https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/releases/latest **Download veraPDF http://downloads.verapdf.org/rel/verapdf-installer.zip **Help improve veraPDF Testing and user feedback is key to improving the software. Please download and use the latest release. If you experience problems, or wish to suggest improvements, please add them to the project’s GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/issues or contact us through our mailing list: http://lists.verapdf.org/listinfo/users. User guides and documentation are published at: http://docs.verapdf.org/. **PREFORMA International Conference – Shaping our future memory standards To find out more about veraPDF and the PREFORMA project, join us at the PREFORMA International Conference in Tallinn on 11-12 October 2017. For more information see: http://finalconference.preforma-project.eu/. -- Becky McGuinness | Community Manager @openpreserve | Skype: becky.mcguinness1 *Open Preservation Foundation* *http://openpreservation.org/ <http://openpreservation.org/>* To find out more about becoming an OPF member or software supporter visit: http://openpreservation.org/about/join/

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[Users] No longer valid in new version?
by hamann.w＠t-online.de 19 May '17

19 May '17

Hi, the current version 1.4.1 no longer validates the attached file. It was considered valid by version 1.2.2. It displays correctly in Adobe reader, xpdf, and ghostscript, and validates in pdfbox Best regards Wolfgang Hamann

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[Users] Vera does not finish and blocks server
by Pavlásková Eliška 10 May '17

10 May '17

Dear all, we are running veraPDF as a validation service in our system for thesis submission. Lately we encountered a problem on server where Vera instances run. In some cases, Vera is not able to produce output (because of timeout or something), so the script that called Vera instance finishes validation process and the validated file is deleted from the temp directory. Usually, it does not cause any problems, but sometimes Vera does not finish (?why?) and still runs and blocks the server and needs to be killed manually. In these situation, the Vera instances block fully the server and it rises problems for other applications running on the server too. We do not know if it is caused by fact that Vera still runs and needs the validated file that was already deleted. We do not know how to solve the problem and prevent to blocking the server with unfinished Vera instances. Has anyone experienced a same problem? Installed Vera version: veraPDF 1.2.1-PDFBOX Built: Wed Mar 01 22:00:00 CET 2017 Here you can see an example log of running processes: 3233 ? Sl 16:43 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0/bin/java -classpath /usr/local/utils/verapdf/etc:/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin/* -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dapp.name=VeraPDF validation CLI -Dapp.pid=3233 -Dapp.repo=/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin -Dapp.home=/usr/local/utils/verapdf -Dbasedir=/usr/local/utils/verapdf org.verapdf.cli.VeraPdfCli -p /net/uloziste/verapdf/profile/verapdf_profile_uk.xml /net/uloziste/FILE_MANAGER2/prace/temp_prace/33a3112ce32342b6807ddbb4822823c9.pdf 5179 ? Sl 15:26 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0/bin/java -classpath /usr/local/utils/verapdf/etc:/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin/* -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dapp.name=VeraPDF validation CLI -Dapp.pid=5179 -Dapp.repo=/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin -Dapp.home=/usr/local/utils/verapdf -Dbasedir=/usr/local/utils/verapdf org.verapdf.cli.VeraPdfCli -p /net/uloziste/verapdf/profile/verapdf_profile_uk.xml /net/uloziste/FILE_MANAGER2/prace/temp_prace/1b4d275596ad8644b331da4d644518a0.pdf 7594 ? Sl 1:29 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0/bin/java -classpath /usr/local/utils/verapdf/etc:/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin/* -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dapp.name=VeraPDF validation CLI -Dapp.pid=7594 -Dapp.repo=/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin -Dapp.home=/usr/local/utils/verapdf -Dbasedir=/usr/local/utils/verapdf org.verapdf.cli.VeraPdfCli -p /net/uloziste/verapdf/profile/verapdf_profile_uk.xml /net/uloziste/FILE_MANAGER2/prace/temp_prace/134f70ea14446023524c3959809491d0.pdf 9030 ? Sl 13:19 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0/bin/java -classpath /usr/local/utils/verapdf/etc:/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin/* -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dapp.name=VeraPDF validation CLI -Dapp.pid=9030 -Dapp.repo=/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin -Dapp.home=/usr/local/utils/verapdf -Dbasedir=/usr/local/utils/verapdf org.verapdf.cli.VeraPdfCli -p /net/uloziste/verapdf/profile/verapdf_profile_uk.xml /net/uloziste/FILE_MANAGER2/prace/temp_prace/4558f4c73ee09c2ce782f7ccc6819404.pdf 9227 ? Sl 0:03 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0/bin/java -classpath /usr/local/utils/verapdf/etc:/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin/* -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dapp.name=VeraPDF validation CLI -Dapp.pid=9227 -Dapp.repo=/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin -Dapp.home=/usr/local/utils/verapdf -Dbasedir=/usr/local/utils/verapdf org.verapdf.cli.VeraPdfCli -p /net/uloziste/verapdf/profile/verapdf_profile_uk.xml /net/uloziste/FILE_MANAGER2/prace/temp_prace/fa9c56f70cb68cf3960af63872d5e29a.pdf 11922 ? Sl 11:45 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0/bin/java -classpath /usr/local/utils/verapdf/etc:/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin/* -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dapp.name=VeraPDF validation CLI -Dapp.pid=11922 -Dapp.repo=/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin -Dapp.home=/usr/local/utils/verapdf -Dbasedir=/usr/local/utils/verapdf org.verapdf.cli.VeraPdfCli -p /net/uloziste/verapdf/profile/verapdf_profile_uk.xml /net/uloziste/FILE_MANAGER2/prace/temp_prace/c9c2b6839c892af31c9cdc807852a629.pdf 30521 ? Sl 20:40 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0/bin/java -classpath /usr/local/utils/verapdf/etc:/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin/* -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dapp.name=VeraPDF validation CLI -Dapp.pid=30521 -Dapp.repo=/usr/local/utils/verapdf/bin -Dapp.home=/usr/local/utils/verapdf -Dbasedir=/usr/local/utils/verapdf org.verapdf.cli.VeraPdfCli -p /net/uloziste/verapdf/profile/verapdf_profile_uk.xml /net/uloziste/FILE_MANAGER2/prace/temp_prace/91a4ec6cbab1ef72496b369c61f822bb.pdf Thank you in advance! Mgr. Eliška Pavlásková, Ph.D. Archiv UK telefon: +420 224 491 771 eliska.pavlaskova(a)ruk.cuni.cz<mailto:eliska.pavlaskova@ruk.cuni.cz>

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[Users] Feature Extraction for contents of embedded files?
by Jochen Staerk 05 May '17

05 May '17

Hi, I would like to validate a XML file which is embedded into a PDF-A file via VeraPDF policy validation but the feature extraction only shows metadata, like fileName, description, subtype and afRelationship. Is it possible to have the file contents in the extraction report? thanks and kind regards Jochen

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