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Members should review this post carefully, as these changes affect your current access to PDF Association features including working group listservs. As mentioned earlier this year, the PDF Association is now administering ISO TC 171 SC 2. In connection with this change, and in order to offer enhanced services to members, the PDF Association is … Read more

2020 Board of Directors and CEO

The PDF Association is deepening its commitment to ISO standards development while driving research into enhancing the format and its applications and increasing support for our members’ marketing needs.

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This October 2020 free webinar series celebrates the diversity of PDF technology capabilities and solutions. If you work with PDF technology, or use it professionally know that in the 10th month of 2020 it’s time for OctoberPDFest!

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The latest release of the industry-supported PDF/A validator has been released. An open source project developed by the Open Preservation Foundation and the PDF Association, veraPDF includes four components: The implementation checker validating all parts and conformance levels of ISO 19005 The policy checker, which facilitates the addition of custom checks to enforce institutional policy beyond … Read more

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The PDF Association and the 3D PDF Consortium have partnered to develop a high-level introduction to the role and capabilities of PDF technology with respect to manufacturing.

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The objective of the draft report on archiving email with PDF is to describe how advanced PDF-based capture, preservation, rendering, and distribution options for email can deliver long-term value to organizations, communities, and everyday users.

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The PDF Association is now accredited by ANSI to serve as the ANSI-accredited U.S, Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Administrator for the U.S. TAG to ISO TC 171 SC 2, the working groups responsible for the PDF specification and several of its subset standards.

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A new resource collating all ISO groups and currently active work items related to PDF has been developed. Based on public information, this summary is invaluable for all PDF developers to ensure awareness of forthcoming changes in PDF-related standards.

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Now available from ISO: the Draft International Standard (DIS) version of the latest ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) standard is ready for download. Notable changes include support for Reiwa, the new Japanese era, and additional clarifications and corrections.

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Ailing economies around the world need every advantage in these difficult times. On the other side of today’s crisis a new WFH/SFH paradigm may influence decision makers to rethink past decisions.

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