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To support industry uptake of PDF 2.0, the specification’s ISO Project Leaders, working through the PDF Association, have established a public GitHub repository to facilitate the reporting of issues against ISO 32000-2:2020.

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27 years after Adobe shipped the first PDF viewer the portable document format has replaced paper as the final format document media of choice. For many organizations 2020 – the year of COVID-19 – has become an “acid test” for digital transformation strategies, and has prompted many organizations to accelerate their digitization projects, a trend … Read more

ISO 32000-2:2020 and subsets.

A brief survey of ISO 32000-2:2020 and its associated subset standards for archiving, print, transactional and variable print and raster imaging.

PDF 2.0 on iso.org

The 2020 edition includes a number of critical updates to normative references as well as other corrections and clarifications. It replaces the 2017 edition.

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The US National Archives and Records Administration’s new proposal for standardization of digitization of permanent federal records is available for comment.

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Those seeking PDF technology solutions used to have to do all the hard work of identifying and soliciting competent vendors. Now it’s easy to ask the entire industry for help!

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OctoberPDFest recordings are now available! 31 videos offer a wide variety of perspectives on our favorite format.

Some of these files are the devil's work!

The original PDF Issue Tracker corpus generated a lot of interest from the PDF technical community; now version 2 of the “Issue Tracker” corpus of stressful PDF has landed just 2 months later!

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Introduction Akin to our earlier series on the Mueller Report PDF, this article provides cultural framing and technical background for considering the evidence provided to-date by the New York Post regarding Hunter Biden’s alleged email from Ukraine. Some journalists are covering this PDF document as if it represents an email from Hunter Biden’s computer; it … Read more

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Starting October 5, the PDF Association’s free webinar series celebrates the diversity of PDF technology capabilities and solutions with a wide range of educational presentations. From the latest in PDF standards development to insights on accessibility, conversion, 3D, digital signatures, security considerations, visions of the future and many other subjects, OctoberPDFest sessions are offered by … Read more

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