Adobe PDF versions supported by PDFBOX

[Chandu <kr...@gmail.com>]

Hello all,

pdfbox release notes doesn't mention anything on the adobe pdf versions it
supports. Please let me know if anyone have idea on this.

Thanks

Re: Adobe PDF versions supported by PDFBOX

[Ad...@swmc.com]

PDFBox can read pretty much any version of PDF, however there may be 
specific features which are not supported.  For example encrypting data 
with AES is a feature which came out in one of the later specifications 
and isn't supported (however decrypting and reading AES encrypted 
documents is supported).

The main thing which causes problems in corrupt and malformed PDFs.  These 
are PDFs which violate the official specification (the spec refers to 
these as "non-conforming" documents).  A lot of big-name software outputs 
these non-conforming documents, and programs like Adobe Reader is very 
lenient when it comes to reading them, which makes people believe that 
there's nothing wrong with the file.

The bottom line is that it should read any conforming PDF, and most 
non-conforming ones.  As Thomas suggested, if you ever come across a 
document which can't load, please create an issue on JIRA and attach the 
PDF and we'll look into it and see what the issue is, and see if we can 
help you out.  If you can't post the PDF (confidential information, 
copyrighted, etc.), posting an issue and including the stacktrace may be 
enough for us to determine what the issue is.

---- 
Thanks,
Adam



From:
Chandu <kr...@gmail.com>
To:
users@pdfbox.apache.org
Date:
12/14/2010 22:24
Subject:
Adobe PDF versions supported by PDFBOX



Hello all,

pdfbox release notes doesn't mention anything on the adobe pdf versions it
supports. Please let me know if anyone have idea on this.

Thanks



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Re: Adobe PDF versions supported by PDFBOX

[Thomas Chojecki <in...@rayman2200.de>]

Hi Chandu,
the pdf specification is feature-rich, so there isn't easy to  
implement all things at all. You can nearly read all pdf documents but  
to stay on the safe side i can recomment you to modificate pdfs till  
version 1.5.

You can try to use higher versions but with no warranty. Also feel  
free to provide the pdfbox team with documents that can be handle  
properly. This helps improving the quality of the pdfbox.

Best regards
Thomas Chojecki

Zitat von Chandu <kr...@gmail.com>:

> Hello all,
>
> pdfbox release notes doesn't mention anything on the adobe pdf versions it
> supports. Please let me know if anyone have idea on this.
>
> Thanks
>