veraPDF-apps

Command line and GUI industry supported PDF/A Validation

Licensing

The veraPDF PDF/A Validation Library is dual-licensed, see:

Documentation

Quick Start

veraPDF GUI

Download release version

You can download a Java-based installer for the latest veraPDF GUI release from our download site. The current installation process requires Java 1.7 to be pre-installed.

Download latest development version

If you want to try the latest development version you can obtain it from our development download site. Be aware that we release development snapshots regularly, often more than once a day. While we try to ensure that development builds are well tested there are no guarantees.

Install from zip package

Once downloaded unzip the archive which contains the installer jar with batch and shell scripts to launch, the zip contents are as follows:

verapdf-1.4.0/verapdf-install.bat
verapdf-1.4.0/verapdf-install.sh
verapdf-1.4.0/verapdf-izpack-installer-1.4.0.jar

Windows users should run the 'verapdf-install.bat' dos batch file, while Linux and OSX users should run the shell script, verapdf-install.sh. It's possible to run the installer directly on any platform:

java - jar <path-to-installer-jar>/verapdf-izpack-installer-1.4.0.jar

####Linux full command line download and install Linux users can download and execute the veraPDF installer using the following commands:

wget http://downloads.verapdf.org/rel/verapdf-installer.zip
unzip verapdf-installer.zip
cd verapdf-<version>
./verapdf-install.sh

####veraPDF GUI manual We've prepared a manual for the GUI which is included in the library project and can be downloaded from GitHub.

####JVM configuration options The startup script found in the install dir, e.g. .../verapdf/verapdf-gui for Linux, or .../verapdf/verapdf-gui.bat for Windows can be used to pass configuration options to the JVM. This is done by setting $JAVA_OPTS for Linux, or %JAVA_OPTS% in the Window batch file. Alternatively these can be passed directly as parameters when calling the shell or batch script.

Building the veraPDF-apps from Source

Pre-requisites

In order to build this project you'll need:

Java 7, which can be downloaded from Oracle, or for Linux users OpenJDK.
Maven v3+

Life will be easier if you also use Git to obtain and manage the source.

Building veraPDF

First you'll need to obtain a version of the veraPDF-apps source code. You can compile either the latest relase version or the latest development source.

Downloading the latest release source

Use Git to clone the repository and ensure that the master branch is checked out:

git clone https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-apps
git checkout master

or download the latest tar archive or zip archive from GitHub.

Downloading the latest development source

Use Git to clone the repository and ensure that the integration branch is checked out:

git clone https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-apps
git checkout integration