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GWG 2022 · 39 rules · 23 variants · TP/FP/FN/TN scoring · veraPDF-verified

How accurate is your
preflight engine?

Benchmark kit for PDF preflight engines. Assay generates a deterministic GWG 2022 test corpus, runs it through callas pdfToolbox, Enfocus PitStop Server, and Lint under one harness, and produces reproducible accuracy reports.

How accurate is your preflight engine?

Assay gives the print industry the public, reproducible GWG 2022 benchmark it never had — a deterministic test corpus, a uniform harness, and per-rule scoring across the major preflight engines.

GWG 2022 Coverage

39 rules across 23 variants of the Ghent Workgroup 2022 specification, codified into a single test matrix. The first public corpus for the new spec.

Deterministic Corpus

~175 PDFs generated byte-identically from a seed: 23 positive baselines plus 152 negative failure-mode files, each targeting exactly one rule.

Uniform Harness

One CLI runs the same corpus through callas pdfToolbox, Enfocus PitStop Server, and Lint — so the only variable in the comparison is the engine.

TP/FP/FN/TN Scoring

Per rule, per variant, per engine. Surface where each preflight tool over-flags, under-flags, or gets it right — with the receipts to back the score.

Reproducible Reports

Markdown and HTML accuracy reports rendered from the run artifacts. Diff two engine runs or two engine versions side by side, in CI or locally.

Hash-Verified Provenance

Vendor inputs are fetched from GWG canonical URLs with SHA-256 verification, and every generated PDF is validated against PDF/X-4 (ISO 15930-7) by verapdf before it enters the corpus.

Self-hosted · managed hosting

Independent tools. Pick the ones you need.

A toolkit of focused, standalone PDF utilities — extraction, preflight, viewing, assembly, imposition planning, and an asset store. Each one plugs into the prepress workflow you already run. Self-host any tool, or let us host it for you on host.withsynergy.io.

Codex

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Collate

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Lint

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Detection-only PDF preflight engine — 500+ checks plus the PDF/X-4 conformance suite.

Lens

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Embeddable PDF viewer with separations, TAC, layers, and annotation overlays.

Assay

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GWG 2022 conformance assay — benchmark a preflight engine against the spec.

Trove

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Content-addressed digital-asset plane — versioned blobs, a presigned data plane, and on-prem agent recall.

Atlas

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The print-data integration hub — canonical jobs, orders, and customers kept in sync across your MIS, ERP, and prepress tools.

Compile

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