[gs-devel] PDF test files

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:44:08AM -0700, Cheri Pompeo wrote:

> I'm looking for a PDF document or set of documents that will verify that I
> can do all the things with Ghostscript that the PDF 5.0 reader can do.

Quality Logic sells a set of test files, which you can at least point to 
as an iteroperability standard. The current set is for PDF 1.7, but it 
looks like you can filter based on the revision declared by the file.

http://www.qualitylogic.com/genoa_test_tools/printer/pdf.html

Ghostscript definitely does not do everything Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 
can do. Our software is targeted at printing and document format 
converson, so in particular we do not implement many of the interactive 
features. Javascript, embedded audio and video, article threading,
and so on will not work. We also provide just an engine, not a viewer 
application, although a number of third-party viewers are built on 
Ghostscript.

However, we do a very good job of rasterizing and converting PDF 1.4 
documents for display and print.

Hope that's of some help,
 -r