Hi Peter,
That's a lot... I'll create issues for some of these topics. The
negative dash phase thing has been fixed in the latest release :
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5636
Things that might be possible:
- UTF-8
- Encryption
- Colorburn / Colordodge
The fill & stroke problem is a problem with Java itself, because it
doesn't offer a combined fill & stroke.
OutputIntents - we don't support these at all, so we'd have to start
supporting it.
Tilman
On 09.11.2023 02:28, Peter Wyatt wrote:
I would think supporting the following PDF 2.0 features are highly relevant,
given that other implementations are already generating PDF 2.0 files today
(see https://pdfa.org/supporting-pdf20/):
* UTF-8 support for user-visible strings, such as bookmarks (outlines), OCG layer names,
certain annot fields, etc. Missing support results in the ugly display or extraction of
"mojibake" for the UTF-8 BoMs. See
https://pdfa.org/understanding-utf-8-in-pdf-2-0. Note that this does NOT impact content
streams or text extraction (unless you also combine with Logical Structure)!
* the latest encryption (AES-GCM 256 bit), dig-sig, hash algorithms, and
Unicode password support which is FAR more up-to-date and secure than all
legacy crypto. 3rd parties are already generating such files which will
otherwise be unreadable/unprocessable by PDFBox. I don't know what crypto
library PDFBox uses, but all the new algorithms are standard modern crypto
algorithms. Unicode passwords also follow the latest ICU (not knowing what you
use internally) but be careful so legacy files continue to work.
* if high-quality semantic content extraction is important, then updating for
PDF 2.0 standard structure types, although this is likely to be a larger dev
effort.
If you want to address rendering issues, then:
* PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix your incorrect rendering of "fill and stroke" in the
presence of transparency! See
https://github.com/pdf-association/pdf-differences/blob/main/Atomic-Fill%2BStroke/README.md
* making sure you using the correct blend mode formulae for ColorBurn and
ColorDodge (from 2009 - I have not checked your implementation):
https://github.com/pdf-association/pdf-differences/tree/main/ColorBurn-ColorDodge
* ensuring negative dash phase is correct (previously unstated as what to do) -
see
https://github.com/pdf-association/pdf-differences/tree/main/Negative-DashPhase
* page-based OutputIntents. Already in use, especially in print-centric
workflows where page merging and imposition across PDFs is now far easier to
do. Implementation update to select a page-based OutputIntent ahead of the
document-level OutputIntent should be relatively easy.
* the use of transparency and blend mode of an annotations appearance stream
when rendered onto a page (not _within_ the annot).
Obviously there are other PDF 2.0 features but these would be my go-to short
list for starting to address the most obvious visible differences.
See also https://pdfa.org/how-to-get-started-with-pdf-2-0/ since reporting a
simple PDF version is unlikely to withstand the test of time...
Of course I am also biased 😊 - and I'm not a Java expert!
-----Original Message-----
From: Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2023 3:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PDF 2.0, PDF/A-4 support
We don't have roadmaps. If you need a PDF 2.0 feature, tell us which one
and why. PDF/A-4 isn't a topic because preflight isn't developed
further. Use VeraPDF instead. You can create PDF/A-4 files like you can
create PDF/A-1b files.
Tilman
On 08.11.2023 00:15, Gili Tzabari wrote:
Hi,
I noticed that PDFBox 3.0 was recently released, but I can't tell what
the status/roadmap is for PDF 2.0 and PDF/A-4 support.
Can someone in the know please let me know where we stand?
Thanks,
Gili
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