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News Release from: Callas software GmbH | Subject: Isartor PDF/A test suite
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 April 2008
Software Tests PDF Authenticity With ISO
Standard
Callas Software has launched its new PDF/A test suite, Isartor, which is said to remove doubts about the authenticity of PDF/A items.
Introduced at the PDF/A conference in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) the PDF/A test suite will be publicly available in the early summer, when all of Callas Software's PDF/A related products will support Isartor The PDF/A test suite is said by Callas Software to be a tool for developers and providers of PDF/A programs to prove that their products fully support the ISO standard PDF/A
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 5 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Any uncertainties about how the PDF/A standard is being understood are clarified and differences in the results between the programs from different vendors are thereby avoided.
The suite is said to offer a common base to all vendors of PDF/A products.
In addition, uncertainties for users are eliminated by allowing for testing of PDF/A applications that does not require deeper PDF knowledge.
The company explained that PDF/A test suite offers practical tests for all details of PDF/A, the ISO standard for long term archiving of electronic documents.
It has been developed with the contribution of several providers of PDF/A software worldwide, organised as the Technical Working Group of the PDF/A Competence Centre.
The PDF/A test suite comprises 200 PDF files that have been designed to test all aspects of the PDF/A standard.
Each PDF contains one distinct and particular property that is prohibited in the PDF/A standard, explained Callas Software.
Additional information incorporated in to each of those files describes the test case and makes it possible to check whether a PDF/A program is able to properly identify the respective problem.
Olaf Drummer, Callas Software's managing director, said: "The PDF/A test suite ends the situation in which some users were not sure whether a given PDF/A application fully supports the PDF/A standard or not.
The test suite has been specified and implemented by international PDF experts and translates the PDF/A standard in to common, practical test cases.
All the PDF/A software industry and their customers take advantage of the new PDF/A test suite." He explained: "It has sometimes been difficult until now to explain differences between different PDF/A products.
We are now in the position to prove full PDF/A support based on an independent test field.".
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