On Tue, 15 May 2018 16:51:13 +0200 luigi scarso <luigi.sca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Christoph Reller < > christoph.rel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:23:04 +0200 luigi scarso <luigi.sca...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> > >> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Christoph Reller < > >> christoph.rel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > Our company is producing (and weekly updating) 67 manuals and > >> > technical documents from more than 900 ConTeXt source files for our > >> > software products. The output PDFs are converted to PDF/A-2a, which is > >> > only possible due to ConTeXt's tagging. > >> > > >> What do you think of verapdf ? > >> > > > > Well, verapdf is only a validator and not a converter. > > > > And, by the way, there is no reasonable way to convert from, say, PDF/A-2b > > to PDF/A-2a without a rediculous amount of AI or manual input because the > > tagging cannot be created out of the blue. It has to be there from the > > document's birth. This is what makes this ConTeXt feature so precious. > > > sure, the point is if verapdf is reliable as validator.
In my opinion, verapdf has one advantage a couple of disadvantages: + If everything works out as planned then verapdf may become one of the most widely adopted validators, free of charge and open source - verapdf is yet relatively new and hence inmature - verapdf currently only validates against the PDF/A specifications and not (really) against the PDF specifications. This is bad because the latter are integral parts of the former. - verapdf does not validate embedded streams such as images, font files and color profiles. In short: Only if you are sure that the input document is a valid PDF, then verapdf can be used to test PDF/A conformance. Cheers, Christoph ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
