[FM Discuss] pdf preflight

[adam]

hmmmm....would be good to get some $ to throw at this...is it something 
that could be managed at a 2-3 day hack fest at lgru?

adam

On Mon 18 Mar 2013 09:47:42 AM NZDT, cedric.gemy at gmail.com wrote:
> ah, yes, i forgot his one.
> I've been in contact with the dev about 2 years ago.
>
> I opinion was that it was too weak but the only option.
> I did some comparison with acrobat pro and it did often not give the
> same results. I don't why but IMO it was not good because in prepress
> you cannot fight against acrobat and have to be compatible with it or
> forget.
>
> I offered my  to the devs to help them use my PDF knowledge which is
> quite good. But i had no news, and looking at the dates, it seems it
> didn't change a lot in that timelapse.
> But never now, may be it worths a new try.
>
> cedric
>
> Le 17/03/2013 21:41, adam a écrit :
>> have you tried the pdf preflight lib:
>> https://github.com/yob/pdf-preflight
>>
>> if someone could slap a gui on it or at least make usable ready made
>> scripts...
>>
>> adam
>>
>> On Mon 18 Mar 2013 09:35:57 AM NZDT, cedric.gemy at gmail.com wrote:
>>> For PDF :
>>> Apart from Acrobat Pro, i don't know any.
>>> I'm fighting since many years for a such free software, but i have
>>> convinced nobody and actually free PDF parsing libraries are not
>>> efficient enough :(
>>>
>>> cedric
>>>
>>> Le 16/03/2013 23:57, adam a écrit :
>>>> anyone know of :
>>>> * a pdf preflight tool
>>>> * a good image analyser
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> both free software of course
>>>>
>>>> i know the ruby pdf-preflight libs but i dont want to hack my way
>>>> badly through ruby to get something working
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> adam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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