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== User Experiences ==
 
== User Experiences ==
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Caron, Bertrand. ‘“Validation OK” They Said: Fixing the Rendering of a So-Called Valid PDF’. Open Preservation Foundation (blog), 21 May 2025. https://openpreservation.org/blogs/validation-ok-they-said-fixing-the-rendering-of-a-so-called-valid-pdf/.
  
 
== Development Activity ==
 
== Development Activity ==

Latest revision as of 10:17, 8 September 2025



QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files
Homepage:http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/
License:Artistic License 2.0
Platforms:Windows, Linux
Function:Metadata Extraction,Decryption
Content type:Document
Appears in COW:Validation Error Analysis and Treatment for PDF-hul 122 Invalid destination - Destination NULL, Validation Error Analysis and Treatment for PDF-hul 133 Invalid date



Description

Description from the project website:

QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files. (...) It also provides many useful capabilities to developers of PDF-producing software or for people who just want to look at the innards of a PDF file to learn more about how they work.

User Experiences

Caron, Bertrand. ‘“Validation OK” They Said: Fixing the Rendering of a So-Called Valid PDF’. Open Preservation Foundation (blog), 21 May 2025. https://openpreservation.org/blogs/validation-ok-they-said-fixing-the-rendering-of-a-so-called-valid-pdf/.

Development Activity