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Acrobat 4.0 was and is still a useful validation tool and many of our production customers still use it - its the only one that still runs on all the other Acrobat platforms (Solaris, HP/UX, etc.). In general it is much more predictable than Acrobat 5.0 - particularly when controlling page sizes. Because, as Leonard says, Acrobat 6.0 will be more restrictive than prior versions, customers will be blind sided by production files which will magically fail with a version upgrade, just as they were with the 5.0 release.
Since no validator existed prior to PDF Consultant (which was just released, I suppose), it seems unfair to punish customers with an ever-tightening set of PDF rules that break in production (no pun intended) files.
Does any one else have customers experiencing these issues?
Todd
But a useful validator would have to know about the valid PDFs that are rejected by Acrobat, and the bad features that nevertheless display correctly.
I did something similar with PSAlter, for PostScript, but since validation was an afterthought, it only has about 20 items it specifically complains of in its "strict conformance" mode.
Aandi
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