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Joint ISO and PDF Association Working Group works on PDF/VT Application Notes

May 24, 2014
Launched April 23, 2014, the joint ISO TC 130 WG 2 FTF 3 and PDF Association Working Group just met again on May 21, 2014. The group is quite active and will meet every two weeks in the coming months. Their initial focus is on developing best practice guidelines on expressing product intent, completely independent of JDF which is considered too complex by numerous potential PDF/VT users, who value the relative simplicity of output control options in AFP or PostScript. The next web meeting will t … Read more
Olaf Drümmer
About Olaf Drümmer

Olaf Drümmer is the founder of callas software (1995) and axaio software (2006). Beginning in 1998 he became very active in the development of PDF and color management best practice guidelines and standards. Having been a delegate to several ISO technical committees dealing in PDF standards over almost two decades … Read more


Launched April 23, 2014, the joint ISO TC 130 WG 2 TF 3 and PDF Association Working Group just met again on May 21, 2014. The group is quite active and will meet every two weeks in the coming months. Their initial focus is on developing best practice guidelines on expressing product intent, completely independent of JDF which is considered too complex by numerous potential PDF/VT users, who value the relative simplicity of output control options in AFP or PostScript. The next web meeting will take place on June 2, 2104.

The web meetings of the PDF/VT Application Notes Working Group activities are open to all interested parties without requiring membership in ISO or PDF Association. For more information it is recommended to subscribe to the "PDFVT-next" mailing list (see http://lists.callassoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/pdfvt-next/ ). Subscribers to the list may also access the list archive, including minutes from previous meetings.

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