Adobe Acrobat's Preflight's "Report Syntax Errors" feature reports two errors in this PDF. I ran a more detailed validation on the file and found over 20 problems with the PDF - all in the annotation's and their Destinations.
So APPE is correct - the file has problems. Leonard From: Dean Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:36 AM To: Post all your questions about iText here Cc: Leonard Rosenthol Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Invalid Annotation I realize the difference, just trying to make a simple point on the list. See attached PDF. It does seem to have a problem with the Link Annotations on this page. Dean On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: APPE is NOTHING like Distiller! Distiller converts Postscript to PDF. APPE is a native PDF RIP (eg it converts PDF to raster and/or prints it directly to a substrate). Also APPE is an OEM'd solution with various customization options - and Kodak/Prinergy has a history of screwing things up. However about if you post a PDF that demonstrates the issue?? Leonard From: Dean Johnson [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 8:20 AM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Invalid Annotation Acrobat doesn't complain at all. I only get the error when trying to Refine through the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE). This is their commercial PDF processing server component (like distiller on steroids). I have not checked them to the ISO standard. I would assume APPE is doing that and probably why they are throwing the error, but who knows now days :>). And you're right, links are not important, as are any other type of annotations. So I will set something up to remove them using iText(Sharp), and see if that works. I've already tried this with another PDF library and it didn't help (before I realized they were from iText). But we'll see. Thanks for your input. Dean On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM, 1T3XT BVBA <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Op 3/03/2011 16:56, Dean Johnson schreef: > Thanks for your quick response (my first post on the list). > > Acrobat Preflight reports some "link" annotations and the pointer > turns to a link indicator when hovered over them (and they work). > I see (so far) one XObject named Watermark. > I do not see any annotations that are visible (like sticky notes). > I've spot checked other pages in the Preflight report and except for > the link pages, no others are found. Does Acrobat complain about invalid annotations? If not: are you sure the annotations are invalid? Maybe they're valid according to ISO-32000-1, but not according to the software you're using. > > My workflow drops inbound PDFs into a hot folder where our Kodak > Prinergy system picks them up for Refine. The Refine process uses the > Adobe PDF Print Engine (I've tried both version 1 and 2) to validate > the PDFs (fonts, images, colorspace, etc.) and separates them into > single page, single file, PDFs, ready to impose for > proofing/platemaking. It simply returns (and quickly) the "Invalid > Annotation" error, but does not say which page(s). You could use iText(Sharp) to separate them into separate pages. You could also use iText(Sharp) to remove all annotations. > > I will begin to split the file apart and submit individual pages > (there are usually over 100 pages) and see if I can narrow it down. > > I've sent one of these files to Kodak and they simple say there are > invalid annotations, but will not elaborate or offer a fix, other then > to manually open and print to postscript, then submit the postscript > for refine. But of course, I want this automated. Seems that in your process, links aren't important, so removing them wouldn't cause any issues. 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