That’s only going to find the most basic syntax errors though, such as a dictionary with a missing >> or and object which ends without “endobj”. It doesn’t check that the structure of the PDF is valid.
I run the preflight syntax error check on almost every problematic PDF which we get on JIRA and I’ve had it report an issue maybe twice. -- John On 8 Jul 2014, at 12:35, Leonard Rosenthol <lrose...@adobe.com> wrote: > 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 >
