[ILUG] GhostScript

Aidan Kehoe kehoea at parhasard.net
Thu Jul 4 15:59:09 IST 2002


 Ar an 4u la de mi 7, scriobh Justin MacCarthy :

 > Does anyone know [can you / how to ]  check 100's of PDF files with
 > ghostscript to make sure they are valid PDFs???

Xpdf has a better PDF interpreter, in my experience; you could loop
through them, and if "pdftops" fails on a file, assume the PDF isn't
valid. This isn't foolproof, though, and probably won't be unless your
tool is made by Adobe. 

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