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At 01:15 AM 7/31/2003 +1000, Antony James Clark wrote:
It's interesting (to me only perhaps) that you did not point out all these tools for correcting incorrect format
I did NOT give examples of tools for correcting incorrect format - but open source PDF parsers that you could use to find errors in your PDF. There are not any "PDF validation tools" on the market.
when I described a case in which Acrobat 5 simply fell over, and where Acrobat 4 did not.
That is usually the case where Acrobat 4 was not following spec, and Acrobat 5 adhears closer to it - and Acrobat 6 even more so.
Is that why do you not add Acrobat to your list of parsers? Why cannot Acrobat detect incorrect format?
Because Acrobat is NOT a validation tool. It accepts a LOT of broken PDFs - because it has to...
Leonard
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