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The PDF Association celebrates its members’ public statements
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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 Matterhorn (mountain)

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.

Dr. Chuck Geschke

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.

Fireworks

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.

Four hand-drawn checkmarks.

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.

Abstract painting

A new Technical Working Group will develop guidance and best-practices for the RichMedia annotation defined in PDF 2.0.

Cute beagle eating pasta.

This PDF file tests parsing valid combinations of adjacent PDF tokens both in the body of a PDF as well as in PDF content streams.

Application Note 003 cover

PDF 2.0 Application Note 003 identifies precise locations for PDF objects’ XMP metadata to help drive interoperability across all PDF creators and consumers.

Animals in a boat.

The ISO-standardized PDF format and subset formats facilitate digital document solutions for today and tomorrow.

Man sits at desk with old computer.

A recent article on Medium reveals a nugget regarding PDF usage: “…Adobe reports that in its 2020 fiscal year alone, about 303 billion PDFs were opened using its Document Cloud service, a 17% annual increase….” As the article rightly points out, PDF “has prevailed” and has “…become the one true standard — the paper of … Read more

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