ValidatePdfE - TPdf

Component: TPdf · Unit: PDFium

Checks the currently open PDF for PDF/E-1 compliance markers and returns a structured result with the detected conformance level plus the issues it found

Syntax

function ValidatePdfE: TPdfEValidationResult;

Description

ValidatePdfE walks the open document looking for the PDF/E-1 file-format markers defined by ISO 24517-1:2008:

An XMP metadata stream containing pdfe:ISO_PDFEVersion (§5 + §13.3).
The matching pdfaExtension:schemas description for the pdfe namespace (XMP Specification 2004 extension-schema requirement, inherited via §13.1).
A Document Information Dictionary entry /ISO_PDFEVersion with a literal-string value (§5 SHALL).
Equality between the Info-dictionary value and the XMP value (§6.5 / §13.1).
A trailer /ID array (§6.2).
xmp:CreateDate and xmp:ModifyDate entries in XMP (inherited from ISO 19005-1 §6.7 via §13.1).

The result is a TPdfEValidationResult record:

Conformance — the detected level: pec1 (PDF/E-1 identifier found and non-empty), pecNone (no PDF/E marker), or pecUnknown (parse failed or marker present but value missing).
Issues — a TPdfEValidationIssues set containing zero or more values: pveiMissingXmpMetadata, pveiMissingPdfEIdentifier, pveiMissingExtensionSchema, pveiMissingInfoVersionEntry, pveiInfoVersionMismatch, pveiMissingTrailerId, pveiMissingXmpDates
IsCompliant — returns True when Conformance is a real PDF/E level and Issues is empty

ValidatePdfE is a read-only inspection — it does not modify the document and is safe to call repeatedly. Use it before archiving a PDF/E payload to surface the file-format-level non-conformances this library can detect. For the common "is this PDF/E-1?" check that does not need the issue list, prefer the lighter-weight PdfEConformance property

Remarks

ValidatePdfE is a file-format-level inspection — it does not enforce content-level PDF/E rules (font embedding completeness, ToUnicode CMaps, prohibited Reference XObjects / PostScript XObjects / TR / TR2 != Default / XFA forms / JavaScript actions, etc.). For a full validator pair this method with an external tool such as callas pdfaPilot or axesPDF
The validator reports pveiInfoVersionMismatch only when both Info /ISO_PDFEVersion and XMP pdfe:ISO_PDFEVersion are present and disagree. When the Info entry is absent the validator reports pveiMissingInfoVersionEntry only, so there is no spurious mismatch
Calling ValidatePdfE on an inactive document returns a record with Conformance = pecUnknown and an empty Issues set
PDF/E-1 permits encryption (§6.3) provided trailer /ID strings remain direct objects. The validator therefore does not flag encryption as a non-conformance

Example

uses System.TypInfo;

var
  Outcome: TPdfEValidationResult;
  Issue: TPdfEValidationIssue;
begin
  Pdf1.FileName := 'C:\Incoming\drawing.pdf';
  Pdf1.Active := True;
  Outcome := Pdf1.ValidatePdfE;
  Memo1.Lines.Add('Level: ' + GetEnumName(TypeInfo(TPdfEConformance),
    Ord(Outcome.Conformance)));
  for Issue in Outcome.Issues do
    Memo1.Lines.Add('- ' + GetEnumName(TypeInfo(TPdfEValidationIssue), Ord(Issue)));
end;

ValidatePdfE method

Component: TPdf · Unit: PDFium

Syntax

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