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
>>>
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>>>
>>
>
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