A tour of PDF standards
Member NewsSeptember 6, 2018
Member NewsSeptember 6, 2018
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Everybody whose occupation is related to a business process that relies on a subset standard will know it: somebody working in prepress will know PDF/X as an archivist knows PDF/A. But for PDF professionals, it also makes sense to know something about other subset standards. One reason could be that it is technically not complicated to create PDF files that comply with more than one standard. Therefore we wrote this article with a short description of all PDF based ISO standards: https://www.callassoftware.com/de/blog/a-tour-of-the-pdf-standards
callas software was founded in 1995 and has focused on making PDF files usable in production environments from the start. While PDF was designed as a flexible and open format, using it reliably in production – where standardization matters – often proves challenging. callas develops technology to identify PDF files…
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