pdfa.org resources now include a new technical index, list of GitHub repos and more.
The Endowment supplements membership dues to enable the PDF Association to maintain and extend its support for administration of ISO TC 171 SC 2.
The PDF Association expands its pdf-issues GitHub repo to cover all ISO standards based on PDF 2.0.
The LangSec IEEE S&P Workshop this year includes several PDF-related presentations resulting from SafeDocs research including a paper by CTO Peter Wyatt.
An overview of industry working-group activities pertaining to tagged PDF.
Version 1.18 of veraPDF, the industry-supported PDF/A validator, is now available for download, and now includes support for PDF/UA-1 (machine checks) and other enhancements.
The document promotes adoption of the ISO standard for accessible PDF by software developers, service bureaus and others interested in validating accessibility in PDF documents.
The PDF community was saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Chuck Geschke, one of the visionaries who helped invent PostScript and PDF technology.
A domain-specific subset of PDF, PDF/R is simple to generate and interpret, allowing it to replace the TIFF and JPEG file formats for capture from imaging systems.
Standards development works best when the expert community is open to diverse and dissenting views. The door is already open to the government to listen, participate and propose. If it isn’t broken don’t try to fix it.