veraPDF 1.8 released

New release available on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal

Posted on: 10 August 2017

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veraPDF-logo-600-300x149The latest version of veraPDF is now available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. This release includes new PDF information in the features report and automatic configuration of the features extractor when applying custom policy profiles. There are also a number of low level PDF fixes and improvements which are documented in the latest release notes: https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/releases/latest

This is the final release of veraPDF under the PREFORMA project. From September, veraPDF will make the transition from a funded project to a stand alone open source project.

 

Download veraPDF

http://www.preforma-project.eu/verapdf-download.html

 

Help improve veraPDF

Most of the changes in this release are in response to the constructive feedback we’ve received from our users. Testing and user feedback is key to improving the software. Please download and use the latest release. If you experience problems, or wish to suggest improvements, please add them to the project’s GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/issues  or post them to our user mailing list: http://lists.verapdf.org/listinfo/users.

 

Getting started

User guides and documentation are published at: http://docs.verapdf.org.

 

Save the date!

Join us for our next webinar on 30 August ‘Life after PREFORMA, the future of veraPDF’. Registration opening soon.

 

About

The veraPDF consortium (http://verapdf.org/) is funded by the PREFORMA project (http://www.preforma-project.eu/). PREFORMA (PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives) is a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme. The project’s main aim is to address the challenge of implementing standardised file formats for preserving digital objects in the long term, giving memory institutions full control over the acceptance and management of preservation files into digital repositories.

 

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