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Matterhorn Protocol

A comprehensive framework for PDF/UA validation and accessibility compliance. The Matterhorn Protocol helps identify and resolve accessibility issues in PDF documents.

About the Protocol

The Matterhorn Protocol is a document that provides a set of failure conditions that can be used to determine if a PDF document conforms to PDF/UA (PDF/Universal Accessibility). It was developed by the PDF Association and is used by PDF validation tools to check for accessibility compliance.

Each check in the protocol identifies a specific failure condition that would make a PDF document non-compliant with PDF/UA standards, along with information on how to detect and fix these issues.

Checkpoint 01: Real content tagged

6 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 01: Real content tagged. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#01-001
Object

Artifact is tagged as real content.

Section: UA1:7.1-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#01-002
Object

Real content is marked as artifact.

Section: UA1:7.1-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#01-003
Object

Content marked as Artifact is present inside tagged content.

Section: UA1:7.1-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#01-004
Object

Tagged content is present inside content marked as Artifact.

Section: UA1:7.1-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#01-005
Object

Content is neither marked as Artifact nor tagged as real content.

Section: UA1:7.1-2

How to Detect

Machine

#01-006
Object

The structure type and attributes of a structure element are not semantically appropriate for the structure element. All of the following structure types must be taken into account: Document, Part, Art, Sect, Div, BlockQuote, Caption, TOC, TOCI, Index, NonStruct, Private, P, H, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, L, LI, Lbl, LBody, Table, TR, TH, TD, THead, TBody, TFoot, Span, Quote, Note, Reference, BibEntry, Code, Link, Annot, Ruby, Warichu, RB, RT, RP, WT, WP, Figure, Formula, Form.

NOTE 1: Structure type is not semantically appropriate if the nature of the content inside the structure element does not match the structure type of the structure element.

NOTE 2: For any non-standard structure types, the standard structure type to which the type is role-mapped shall be used for validation.

NOTE 3: Tables are regular when the number of logical cells is equal in each row after accounting for rowspan and colspan attributes. While PDF/UA-1 does not prohibit irregular tables, irregular tables are almost always a strong indicator of improper table structure. It may be a good idea to raise a warning when such tables are encountered, but it is not required by the Matterhorn Protocol.

NOTE 4: The value of table cell attributes is a function of the cell’s semantic role in the table’s structure. Therefore, a TH cell may not include a Scope attribute with an inappropriate value.

Section: UA1:7.1-2

How to Detect

Human

Checkpoint 02: Role Mapping

4 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 02: Role Mapping. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#02-001
Doc

One or more non-standard tag’s mapping does not terminate with a standard type.

NOTE: Although PDF/UA defines the nomenclature for heading levels above H6 (Hn), these are not standard structure types (as defined in ISO 32000-1) and therefore Hn tags must (PDF/UA-1 7.1, paragraph 1) be rolemapped to a standard structure type. According to PDF/UA-1, PDF/UA-conforming processors are expected to ignore such mappings and respect the heading level.

Section: UA1:7.1-3

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

Hn

#02-002
Doc

The mapping of one or more non-standard types is semantically inappropriate.

Section: UA1:7.1-3

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

Hn

#02-003
Doc

A circular mapping exists.

Section: UA1:7.1-3

How to Detect

Machine

#02-004
Doc

One or more standard types are remapped.

Section: UA1:7.1-4

How to Detect

Machine

Checkpoint 03: Flickering

3 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 03: Flickering. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#03-001
Page

One or more Actions lead to flickering.

Section: UA1:7.1-5

How to Detect

Human

#03-002
Object

One or more multimedia objects contain flickering content.

Section: UA1:7.1-5

How to Detect

Human

#03-003
JS

One or more JavaScript actions lead to flickering.

Section: UA1:7.1-5

How to Detect

Human

Checkpoint 04: Color and Contrast

1 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 04: Color and Contrast. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#04-001
Object

Information is conveyed by contrast, color, format or layout, or some combination thereof but the content is not tagged to reflect all meaning conveyed by the use of contrast, color, format or layout, or some combination thereof.

Section: UA1:7.1-6

How to Detect

Human

Checkpoint 05: Sound

3 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 05: Sound. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#05-001
Object

Media annotation present, but audio content not available in another form.

NOTE: An example of another form is a transcript.

Section: UA1:7.1-7

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#05-002
Object

Audio annotation present, but content not available in another form.

NOTE: An example of another form is a transcript.

Section: UA1:7.1-7

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#05-003
JS

JavaScript uses beep function but does not provide another means of notification.

Section: UA1:7.1-7

How to Detect

Human

Checkpoint 06: Metadata

4 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 06: Metadata. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#06-001
Doc

Document does not contain XMP metadata stream

Section: UA1:7.1-8

How to Detect

Machine

#06-002
Doc

The metadata stream in the Catalog dictionary does not include the PDF/UA identifier.

Section: UA1:5

How to Detect

Machine

#06-003
Doc

Metadata stream does not contain dc:title

Section: UA1:7.1-8

How to Detect

Machine

#06-004
Doc

dc:title does not clearly identify the document

Section: UA1:7.1-8

How to Detect

Human

Checkpoint 07: Dictionary

2 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 07: Dictionary. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#07-001
Doc

ViewerPreferences dictionary of the Catalog dictionary does not contain DisplayDocTitle key.

Section: UA1:7.1-9

How to Detect

Machine

#07-002
Doc

ViewerPreferences dictionary of the Catalog dictionary contains DisplayDocTitle key with a value of false.

Section: UA1:7.1-9

How to Detect

Machine

Checkpoint 08: OCR Validation

3 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 08: OCR Validation. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#08-001
Page

OCR-generated text contains significant errors.

Section: UA1:7.1-10

How to Detect

Human

#08-002
Page

OCR-generated text is not tagged

Section: UA1:7.1-10

How to Detect

Human

See Also

01-006

#08-003
Doc

Suspect entry has a value of true.

Section: UA1:7.1-11

How to Detect

Machine

Checkpoint 09: Appropriate Tags

8 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 09: Appropriate Tags. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#09-002
Object

Structure elements are nested in a semantically inappropriate manner. (e.g. a table inside a heading).

Section: UA1:7.2-1
#09-003
Object

The structure type (after applying any role-mapping as necessary) of a structure element is not semantically appropriate.

Section: UA1:7.2-1
#09-004
Object

A table-related structure element is used in a way that does not conform to the syntax defined in ISO 32000-1, Table 337.

Section: UA1:7.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

TD
TFoot
TH
THead
TR
Table

#09-005
Object

A list-related structure element is used in a way that does not conform to Table 336 in ISO 32000-1.

Section: UA1:7.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

LBody
LI
Lbl

#09-006
Object

A TOC-related structure element is used in a way that does not conform to Table 333 in ISO 32000-1.

Section: UA1:7.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

TOCI

#09-007
Object

A Ruby-related structure element is used in a way that does not conform to Table 338 in ISO 32000-1.

Section: UA1:7.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

RP
RT
Ruby

#09-008
Object

A Warichu-related structure element is used in a way that does not conform to Table 338 in ISO 32000-1.

Section: UA1:7.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

WT
Warichu

Checkpoint 10: Character Mappings

1 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 10: Character Mappings. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#10-001
Object

Character code cannot be mapped to Unicode.

Section: UA1:7.2-2

How to Detect

Machine

Checkpoint 11: Declared Natural Language

7 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 11: Declared Natural Language. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#11-001
Object

Natural language for text in page content cannot be determined.

Section: UA1:7.2-3

How to Detect

Machine

#11-002
Object

Natural language for text in “Alt”, “ActualText” and “E” attributes cannot be determined.

Section: UA1:7.2-3

How to Detect

Machine

#11-003
Object

Natural language in the Outline entries cannot be determined.

Section: UA1:7.2-3

How to Detect

Machine

#11-004
Object

Natural language in the “Contents” entry for annotations cannot be determined.

Section: UA1:7.2-3

How to Detect

Machine

#11-005
Object

Natural language in the TU key for form fields cannot be determined.

Section: UA1:7.2-3

How to Detect

Machine

#11-006
Doc

Natural language for document metadata cannot be determined.

Section: UA1:7.2-3

How to Detect

Machine

#11-007
All

Natural language is not appropriate.

Section: UA1:7.2-3

How to Detect

Human

Checkpoint 12: Stretchable Characters

1 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 12: Stretchable Characters. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#12-001
Object

Stretched characters are not represented appropriately.

Section: UA1:7.2-4

How to Detect

Human

Checkpoint 13: Graphics

7 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 13: Graphics. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#13-001
Object

Graphics objects other than text objects and artifacts are not tagged with a Figure tag.

Section: UA1:7.3-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#13-002
Object

A link with a meaningful background does not include alternative text describing both the link and the graphic’s purpose.

Section: UA1:7.3-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#13-003
Object

A caption is not tagged with a Caption tag.

Section: UA1:7.3-2

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#13-004
Object

Figure tag alternative or replacement text missing.

Section: UA1:7.3-3

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#13-005
Object

Actual text used for a Figure for which Alternative text is more appropriate.

Section: UA1:7.3-4

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#13-006
Object

Graphics objects that possess semantic value only within a group of graphics objects is tagged on its own.

Section: UA1:7.3-5

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#13-007
Object

A more accessible representation is not used.

Section: UA1:7.3-6

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

Checkpoint 14: Headings

7 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 14: Headings. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#14-001
Doc

Headings are not tagged.

Section: UA1:7.4-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

Hn

See Also

01-006

#14-002
Doc

Does use numbered headings, but the first heading tag is not H1.

Section: UA1:7.4.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

Hn

#14-003
Doc

Numbered heading levels in descending sequence are skipped (Example: H3 follows directly after H1).

Section: UA1:7.4-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

Hn

#14-004
Object

Numbered heading tags do not use Arabic numerals.

Section: UA1:7.4.3-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

Hn

See Also

01-006

#14-005
Object

Content representing a 7th level (or higher) heading does not use an “H7” (or higher) tag.

Section: UA1:7.4.3-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

See Also

01-006

#14-006
Object

A node contains more than one H tag.

Section: UA1:7.4.4-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#14-007
Doc

Document uses both H and H# tags.

NOTE: In weakly-structured documents, headings always take the form “Hn” (e.g. H1, H2, Hn) without intervening whitespace or numerical separators.

Section: UA1:7.4.4-3

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

Hn

Checkpoint 15: Tables

5 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 15: Tables. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#15-001
Object

A row has a header cell, but that header cell is not tagged as a header.

Section: UA1:7.5-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#15-002
Object

A column has a header cell, but that header cell is not tagged as a header.

Section: UA1:7.5-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#15-003
Object

In a table not organized with Headers attributes and IDs, a TH cell does not contain a Scope attribute.

Section: UA1:7.5-2

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#15-004
Object

Content is tagged as a table for information that is not organized in rows and columns.

Section: UA1:7.5-3

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#15-005
Object

A given cell’s header cannot be unambiguously determined.

Section: UA1:7.5-2

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

See Also

01-006

Checkpoint 16: Lists

3 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 16: Lists. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#16-001
Object

List is an ordered list, but no value for the ListNumbering attribute is present.

Section: UA1:7.6-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#16-002
Object

List is an ordered list, but the ListNumbering value is not one of the following: Decimal, UpperRoman, LowerRoman, UpperAlpha, LowerAlpha.

Section: UA1:7.6-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#16-003
Object

Content is a list but is not tagged as a list.

Section: UA1:7.6-2

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

See Also

01-006

Checkpoint 17: Mathematical Expressions

3 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 17: Mathematical Expressions. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#17-001
Object

Content is a mathematical expression but is not tagged with a Formula tag.

Section: UA1:7.7-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

See Also

01-006

#17-002
Object

Formula tag is missing an Alt attribute.

Section: UA1:7.7-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#17-003
Object

Unicode mapping requirements are not met.

Section: UA1:7.7-2

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

See Also

10-001

Checkpoint 18: Page Headers and Footers

2 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 18: Page Headers and Footers. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#18-001
Object

Headers and footers are not marked as pagination artifacts.

Section: UA1:7.8-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#18-002
Object

Header or footer artifacts are not classified as Header or Footer subtypes.

Section: UA1:7.8-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

Checkpoint 19: Notes and References

4 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 19: Notes and References. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#19-001
Object

Footnotes, endnotes, note labels are not tagged as Note.

Section: UA1:7.9-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#19-002
Object

References are not tagged as Reference.

Section: UA1:7.9-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#19-003
Object

ID key of the Note tag is not present.

Section: UA1:7.9-2

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#19-004
Object

ID key of the Note tag is non-unique.

Section: UA1:7.9-2

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

Checkpoint 20: Optional Content

3 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 20: Optional Content. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#20-001
Object

Name entry is missing or has an empty string as its value in an Optional Content Configuration Dictionary in the Configs entry in the OCProperties entry in the Catalog dictionary.

Section: UA1:7.10-1

How to Detect

Machine

#20-002
Object

Name entry is missing or has an empty string as its value in an Optional Content Configuration Dictionary that is the value of the D entry in the OCProperties entry in the Catalog dictionary.

Section: UA1:7.10-1

How to Detect

Machine

#20-003
Object

The AS key appears in an Optional Content Configuration Dictionary.

Section: UA1:7.10-2

How to Detect

Machine

Checkpoint 21: Embedded Files

1 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 21: Embedded Files. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#21-001
Object

The file specification dictionary for an embedded file does not contain F and UF keys.

Section: UA1:7.11-1

How to Detect

Machine

Checkpoint 22: Article Threads

1 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 22: Article Threads. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#22-001
Object

Article threads do not reflect logical reading order.

Section: UA1:7.12-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

Checkpoint 23: Digital Signatures

1 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 23: Digital Signatures. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#23-001
--

No test specific to digital signatures is required, however other provisions apply (form fields).

Section: UA1:7.13-1

How to Detect

--

See Also

01-006

Checkpoint 24: Non-Interactive Forms

1 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 24: Non-Interactive Forms. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#24-001
Object

Non-interactive forms are not tagged with the PrintFields attribute.

Section: UA1:7.14-1

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

Checkpoint 25: XFA

1 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 25: XFA. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#25-001
Object

File contains the dynamicRender element with value “required”.

Section: UA1:7.15-1

How to Detect

Machine

Checkpoint 26: Navigation

2 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 26: Navigation. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#26-001
Object

The file is encrypted but does not contain a P key in its encryption dictionary.

Section: UA1:7. 16-1

How to Detect

Machine

#26-002
Object

The file is encrypted and does contain a P key but the 10th bit position of the P key is false.

Section: UA1:7. 16-1

How to Detect

Machine

Checkpoint 27: Annotations

1 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 27: Annotations. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#27-001
--

No tests specific to navigation are required; use appropriate semantics.

Section: UA1:7.17-1

How to Detect

--

See Also

01-006

Checkpoint 28: Security

18 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 28: Security. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#28-001
Object

An annotation whose hidden flag is not set and whose rectangle is not outside the crop-box is not in correct reading order.

Section: UA1:7.18.1-2

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#28-002
Object

An annotation, excluding annotations of subtype Widget, Popup or Link, is not nested within an Annot tag.

Section: UA1:7.18.1-2

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#28-003
Object

An annotation whose hidden flag is not set and whose rectangle is not outside the crop-box is used for visual formatting but is not tagged according to its semantic function.

Section: UA1:7.18.1-3

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#28-004
Object

An annotation other than annotations of type Link, Widget or Popup whose hidden flag is not set and whose rectangle is not outside the crop box and does not have a Contents key does not have an alternative description (in the form of an Alt entry in the enclosing structure element).

Section: UA1:7.18.1-4

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#28-005
Object

A form field whose hidden flag is not set and whose rectangle is not outside the crop-box and does not have a TU key does not have an alternative description (in the form of an Alt entry in the enclosing structure element).

Section: UA1:7.18.1-4

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#28-006
Object

An annotation with subtype undefined in ISO 32000 does not meet 7.18.1.

Section: UA1:7.18.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

See Also

28-001, 28-002, 28-003, 28-004

#28-007
Object

An annotation of subtype TrapNet exists.

Section: UA1:7.18.2-2

How to Detect

Machine

#28-008
Object

A page containing an annotation does not contain a Tabs key.

Section: UA1:7.18.3-1

How to Detect

Machine

#28-009
Object

A page containing an annotation has a Tabs key with a value other than S.

Section: UA1:7.18.3-1

How to Detect

Machine

#28-010
Object

A widget annotation is not nested within a Form tag.

Section: UA1:7.18.4-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#28-011
Object

A link annotation is not nested within a Link tag.

Section: UA1:7.18.5-1

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#28-012
Object

A link annotation does not include an alternate description in the Contents Key.

Section: UA1:7.18.5-2

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

#28-013
Object

The IsMap key is present with a value of true but the functionality is not provided in some other way.

Section: UA1:7.18.5-3

How to Detect

Human

Tags affected by this check

#28-014
Object

CT key is missing from the media clip data dictionary.

Section: UA1:7.18.6.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

#28-015
Object

Alt key is missing from the media clip data dictionary.

Section: UA1:7.18.6.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

#28-016
Object

File attachment annotations do not conform to 7.11.

Section: UA1:7.18.7-1

How to Detect

Machine

See Also

21-001

#28-017
Object

A PrinterMark annotation is included in logical structure.

Section: UA1:7.18.8-1

How to Detect

Machine

#28-018
Object

The appearance stream of a PrinterMark annotation is not marked as Artifact.

Section: UA1:7.18.8-2

How to Detect

Machine

Tags affected by this check

See Also

01-002, 01-005

Checkpoint 29: Actions

1 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 29: Actions. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#29-001
Object

A script requires specific timing for individual keystrokes.

Section: UA1:7. 19-1

How to Detect

Human

See Also

- Checkpoint 30: XObjects Index Failure Condition Section Type How See

Checkpoint 30: XObjects

2 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 30: XObjects. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#30-001
Object

A reference XObject is present.

Section: UA1:7. 20-1

How to Detect

Machine

#30-002
Object

Form XObject contains MCIDs and is referenced more than once.

Section: UA1:7. 20-2

How to Detect

Machine

See Also

- Checkpoint 31: Fonts Index Failure Condition Section Type How See

Checkpoint 31: Fonts

30 checks

Validation checks related to Checkpoint 31: Fonts. Each card below describes a potential failure condition and how it can be detected.

#31-001
Object

A Type 0 font dictionary with encoding other than Identity-H and Identity-V has values for Registry in both CIDSystemInfo dictionaries that are not identical.

Section: UA1:7.21.3-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-002
Object

A Type 0 font dictionary with encoding other than Identity-H and Identity-V has values for Ordering in both CIDSystemInfo dictionaries that are not identical.

Section: UA1:7.21.3.1-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-003
Object

A Type 0 font dictionary with encoding other than Identity-H and Identity-V has a value for Supplement in the CIDSystemInfo dictionary of the CID font that is less than the value for Supplement in the CIDSystemInfo dictionary of the CMap.

Section: UA1:7.21.3.1-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-004
Object

A Type 2 CID font contains neither a stream nor the name Identity as the value of the CIDToGIDMap entry.

Section: UA1:7.21.3.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-005
Object

A Type 2 CID font does not contain a CIDToGIDMap entry.

Section: UA1:7.21.3.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-006
Object

A CMap is neither listed as described in ISO 32000- 1:2008, 9.7.5.2, Table 118 nor is it embedded.

Section: UA1:7.21.3.3-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-007
Object

The WMode entry in a CMap dictionary is not identical to the WMode value in the CMap stream.

Section: UA1:7.21.3.3-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-008
Object

A CMap references another CMap which is not listed in ISO 32000-1:2008, 9.7.5.2, Table 118.

NOTE: For more information see ISO 32000-1 9.7.5.3, UseCMap entry.

Section: UA1:7.21.3.3-2

How to Detect

Machine

#31-009
Object

For a font used by text intended to be rendered the font program is not embedded.

NOTE: A glyph is used for rendering if the text render mode is not equal 3 (text render mode 3 is used for invisible text).

Section: UA1:7.21.4.1-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-010
Object

A font program is embedded that is not legally embeddable for unlimited, universal rendering.

Section: UA1:7.21.4.1-2

How to Detect

Human

#31-011
Object

For a font used by text the font program is embedded but it does not contain glyphs for all of the glyphs referenced by the text used for rendering.

NOTE: A glyph is used for rendering if the text render mode is not equal to 3 (text render mode 3 is used for invisible text).

Section: UA1:7.21.4.1-3

How to Detect

Machine

#31-012
Object

The FontDescriptor dictionary of an embedded Type 1 font contains a CharSet string, but at least one of the glyphs present in the font program is not listed in the CharSet string.

Section: UA1:7.21.4.2-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-013
Object

The FontDescriptor dictionary of an embedded Type 1 font contains a CharSet string, but at least one of the glyphs listed in the CharSet string is not present in the font program.

Section: UA1:7.21.4.2-2

How to Detect

Machine

#31-014
Object

The FontDescriptor dictionary of an embedded CID font contains a CIDSet string, but at least one of the glyphs present in the font program is not listed in the CIDSet string.

Section: UA1:7.21.4.2-3

How to Detect

Machine

#31-015
Object

The FontDescriptor dictionary of an embedded CID font contains a CIDSet string, but at least one of the glyphs listed in the CIDSet string is not present in the font program.

Section: UA1:7.21.4.2-4

How to Detect

Machine

#31-016
Object

For one or more glyphs, the glyph width information in the font dictionary and in the embedded font program differ by more than 1/1000 unit.

Section: UA1:7.21.5-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-017
Object

A non-symbolic TrueType font is used for rendering, but none of the cmap entries in the embedded font program is a non-symbolic cmap.

Section: UA1:7.21.6-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-018
Object

A non-symbolic TrueType font is used for rendering, but for at least one glyph to be rendered the glyph cannot be looked up by any of the non-symbolic cmap entries in the embedded font program.

Section: UA1:7.21.6-2

How to Detect

Machine

#31-019
Object

The font dictionary for a non-symbolic TrueType font does not contain an Encoding entry.

Section: UA1:7.21.6-3

How to Detect

Machine

#31-020
Object

The font dictionary for a non-symbolic TrueType font contains an Encoding dictionary which does not contain a BaseEncoding entry.

Section: UA1:7.21.6-4

How to Detect

Machine

#31-021
Object

The value for either the Encoding entry or the BaseEncoding entry in the Encoding dictionary in a non-symbolic TrueType font dictionary is neither MacRomanEncoding nor WinAnsiEncoding.

Section: UA1:7.21.6-5

How to Detect

Machine

#31-022
Object

The Differences array in the Encoding entry in a non-symbolic TrueType font dictionary contains one or more glyph names which are not listed in the Adobe Glyph List.

Section: UA1:7.21.6-6

How to Detect

Machine

#31-023
Object

The Differences array is present in the Encoding entry in a non-symbolic TrueType font dictionary but the embedded font program does not contain a (3,1) Microsoft Unicode cmap.

Section: UA1:7.21.6-7

How to Detect

Machine

#31-024
Object

The Encoding entry is present in the font dictionary for a symbolic TrueType font.

Section: UA1:7.21.6-8

How to Detect

Machine

#31-025
Object

The embedded font program for a symbolic TrueType font contains no cmap.

Section: UA1:7.21.6-9

How to Detect

Machine

#31-026
Object

The embedded font program for a symbolic TrueType font contains more than one cmap, but none of the cmap entries is a (3,1) Microsoft Symbol cmap.

Section: UA1:7.21.6-10

How to Detect

Machine

#31-027
Object

A font dictionary does not contain the ToUnicode entry and none of the following is true: - the font uses MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding or WinAnsiEncoding - the font is a Type 1 or Type 3 font and the glyph names of the glyphs referenced are all contained in the Adobe Glyph List or the set of named characters in the Symbol font, as defined in ISO 32000-1:2008, Annex D - the font is a Type 0 font, and its descendant CIDFont uses Adobe-GB1, Adobe-CNS1, AdobeJapan1 or Adobe-Korea1 character collections - the font is a non-symbolic TrueType font

Section: UA1:7.21.7-1

How to Detect

Machine

#31-028
Object

One or more Unicode values specified in the ToUnicode CMap are zero (0).

Section: UA1:7.21.7-2

How to Detect

Machine

#31-029
Object

One or more Unicode values specified in the ToUnicode CMap are equal to either U+FEFF or U+FFFE.

Section: UA1:7.21.7-3

How to Detect

Machine

#31-030
Object

One or more characters used in text showing operators reference the .notdef glyph.

Section: UA1:7.21.8-1

How to Detect

Machine

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