Well, I've finally made a blog post, but on the #OPF website!

https://openpreservation.org/blogs/validation-ok-they-said-fixing-the-rendering-of-a-so-called-valid-pdf

I'm walking you through the most complex (out of 2) PDF repair processes I've made. Any input is welcome!

#digipres #wtfpdf

(Für manche) Unpopular Optinion:

Wer als Führungskraft nicht bereit ist, Verantwortung nach oben abzufangen und Schutz nach unten zu bieten, ist keine Führungskraft, sondern nur ein Erfüllungsgehilfe mit Titel. Ein Team führt man nicht mit Ansagen, sondern mit Rückgrat.

Sei der Blitzableiter und nicht Teil des Gewitters!

#fuhrungskrafte #arbeitgeber #team

Sort of a #PDF #doubleTrouble release day at the Open Preservation Foundation today, with new releases of both #veraPDF (which checks conformance to PDF/A and PDF/UA) and the #Arlington PDF Checker (which checks conformance to the Arlington PDF model):

https://openpreservation.org/news/verapdf-and-arlington-1-28-released/

Good stuff!

The new bugfix release 3.0.5 of #Apache #PDFBox is available https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html

« Explain LLM in one word »

« Parrot »

The new bugfix release 2.0.34 of #Apache #PDFBox is available https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html

Apache Tika 3.1.0 is released!

https://lists.apache.org/thread/178qc6hg1zg29tztkgczd8b19gj9mro4

Do others see increased "AI Agent" generated useless, noisy, spammy issues in
#github
in the last 12 hours - we have a LOT of those created recently in
@airflow and those acccounts usually also create similar issues in Iceberg.

So far we have 32 and counting:
https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20label%3A%22AI%20Spam%22

Outlier AI. You are doing it wrong.

Hiring people to post completely nonsenese or copy&pasted issues in reputable open-source repositories - and make maintainers train your AI on it ? not good.

There are 50 such issues in last few days in @airflow repo [1] and counting. More details in [2]

[1] https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20label%3A%22AI%20Spam%22

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jarekpotiuk_outlier-you-are-doing-it-wrong-please-activity-7289278690213990400-MOuC

The new bugfix release 3.0.4 of #Apache #PDFBox is available https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html

The new bugfix release 2.0.33 of #Apache #PDFBox is available https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html

@mbeddedDev @tallison
looks like adobe is kind of desperate 😂