Hi Karl, On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:51:08PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
A couple months ago (sad but true), Fabrice passed on (https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2016-January/004066.html) the report from Denis (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.text.pdf/ZnobgbiiDZ4) that pdftex creates pdfs with "No document catalog dictionary" and this fails jhove validation.
But the consensus seemed to be that it was a JHOVE bug, see for example Patrick's message from 7 February to the dev-luatex list: https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/dev-luatex/2016-February/005603.html
Anyway, can someone compare the pdftex result with the pdftk result and discern the actual difference? (Sorry, I'd do it myself but I'm going to be away for a couple of days and time is getting short for TL'16.)
The actual difference was pretty clear apparently: the PDF string representing the banner contains a pair of balanced parentheses, such as /PTEX.Fullbanner (This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/W32TeX) kpathsea version 6.2.1) These are allowed by the PDF spec but JHOVE bails on them. Best, Arthur