Actually, preflight has an option called ³Report PDF Syntax Errors² which
WILL check against ISO 32000-1 compliance - at least for the PDF body
objects themselves.

Leonard

On 7/8/14, 2:02 PM, "John Hewson" <j...@jahewson.com> wrote:

>On 8 Jul 2014, at 10:53, Martin Schröder <mar...@oneiros.de> wrote:
>
>> 2014-07-08 19:49 GMT+02:00 John Hewson <j...@jahewson.com>:
>>> In Adobe Acrobat this file has only two pages, so as noted the root of
>>>the page tree is invalid:
>>> 
>>> /Kids [3 0 R, 3 0 R, 3 0 R]
>> 
>> This is IMHO perfectly valid.
>
>In cases like this where the spec is vague we rely on Acrobat¹s behaviour
>to decide what is and isn¹t valid.
>
>> Has anybody tried preflighting the pdf with Acrobat?
>
>Preflight can do some basic checks on ²standard" PDFs but it¹s really
>limited, it¹s mostly for PDF/A, because the ²standard² PDF spec is too
>vague to be used to verify conformance (many usable PDFs are
>non-conformant anyway).
>
>-- John

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