Hi, Afaik, the GNU PDF library is an effort for doing a pdf library from scratch. However, I think that the current recomendation for a PDF library is to use poppler.
Greetings José On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Marcus Hodges < [email protected]> wrote: > José, > > Thank you for the information - this is very helpful. To the best of my > understanding our project does not require javascript support and from a > security viewpoint, the fact that Evince doesn't try to implement is a good > thing. I may need to become more familiar with the PDF/A standard so I can > itemize better what parts we care about and not. On a separate note, I > came across the GNU PDF Library yesterday; do you happen to know how this > relates to Poppler? Are they completely separate things or is one > a derivative of the other? Thanks again. > > Cheers! > Marcus Hodges > > Cheers! > Marcus Hodges > Principal Security Engineer > Security Innovation > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:48 AM, [email protected] < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> afaik there is no conformance test that we have passed or something like >> that. If PDF/A is strictly about forbidding some features in the viewer, >> then I don't think there is any code in evince to do that. That being said, >> the largest problem in security for PDF comes from javascript, and evince >> does not (and will not in the near future unless some-one steps in) >> implement javascript support. About annotations, there is UI to list all >> annotations, but currently we don't support all annotation types, so the >> list might be incomplete for some files. >> >> >> Greetings >> >> José >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Marcus Hodges < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Good afternoon. I'm looking for information on the current state of >>> support for PDF/A by Evince (Poppler). Does anyone know where this might be >>> documented or be able to speak to it directly? We are evaluating the use of >>> Evince for our project. Thank you in advance for your time. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Marcus Hodges >>> Principal Security Engineer >>> Security Innovation >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> evince-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list >>> >>> >> >
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