[poppler] Compatibility between poppler's pdfunite and JHOVE.

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dissabte, 8 d’abril de 2017, a les 12:15:38 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va 
escriure:
> El divendres, 7 d’abril de 2017, a les 15:44:59 CEST, Russell McOrmond va
> 
> escriure:
> > Replying to
> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2017-April/012147.html , On
> > Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Leonard Rosenthol
> > 
> > <lrosenth at adobe.com> wrote:
> > > Can I assume that you are aware that JHOVE is NOT a PDF validator in any
> > > way?  In addition, it’s support for modern PDF feature is quite out of
> > > date!  And their own site
> > > (<http://jhove.openpreservation.org/modules/pdf/>) says as much.  I
> > > suspect that if you ran these files through a more thorough PDF
> > > validation, such as the one in Adobe Acrobat Pro, it would not report
> > > any
> > > problems.
> > > 
> > > Leonard
> > > 
> >   Canadiana runs a preservation platform. We want to identify and
> > 
> > disallow files that aren't encoded in the publicly documented format
> > or that use features that aren't appropriate for long-term
> > preservation (PDF/A).  What we need is a tool to take multiple PDF/A
> > files and join them together, with the result also being a PDF/A file.
> > This is something I presumed pdfunite could do, but that might not be
> > the case.
> > 
> >   If it turns out that poppler is using features that are
> > 
> > inappropriate for preservation then this would mean we need to
> > discontinue our use of poppler.
> 
> I don't understand your e-mail, does anywhere pdfunite does what you want it
> to do? As far as I can see, no.

I can't type, sentence should say 
"does anywhere pdfunite say it does what you want it to do?"

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> If you want pdfunite to do something it does not do, you can either open a
> bug in the bug tracker being *very specific* about what you think should be
> added/ changed/fixed or you can send a patch.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
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