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Fail If Error On PDF Specification v7.0.1

Resource Type:

Apogee Preflight Action List

Applies To:

Agfa Apogee Prepress 7.0 and higher
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What it does:

The Apogee Prepress action ap_Fail IfErrorOnPDFSpecification v7.0.1 combines several actions which validate the content of the PDF. It will report problems in a PDF file which will result in Normalizer, Preflight or PDFRender errors.
This action list only generate errors but will not fix anything.

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Additional information for Prepress experts:
The performed checks are:
  1. Check the embedded icc profiles for correctness
  2. Check the images for problems
    • incorrect size
  3. Check the fonts for problems
    The following issues can be detected:
    • glyph's outline is crossed
    • glyph's outline has invalid direction
    • charstring includes invalid Hit-operator
    • charProc doesn't include D0-D1-operator
    • private Dict is empty
    • font matrix is not normalized
    • private Dict keys are not normalized
    • symbol 'Space' is omitted
    • symbol '.notdef' is omitted
    • eexec part is HEX encoded
    • charstrings includes Hint-operators which aren't situated at the beginning of charstring
    • duplicated CIDs are included
    • CID is out of range (CIDCount)
    • there are known problems with the font with the given name and version
    • font descriptor contains symbolic and non-symbolic flags enabled at the same time
    • font descriptor contains symbolic flag enabled whereas the font seems to be non-symbolic
  4. Check the PDF syntax
    • an invalid imagemask (with invalid parameters) will be fixed (invalid parameters removed)
    • wrong endstreamendobj
    • an undefined resource which is used on the page
    • insufficient arguments in the setcolor operation (f.e. 0 0 rg)