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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.

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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!

Screen-shot from Biden PDF.

A controversial PDF tied to Hunter Biden highlights key digital forensics issues: PDFs are representations, not originals, and without metadata or signatures, authenticity claims remain uncertain.

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Check out the new PDF/UA Reference Suite update to the 2014 edition.

Bell cure of PDF complexity.

Reliable PDF interoperability depends on diverse test corpora. A new “Issue Tracker” corpus offers real-world, bug-triggering files, helping developers improve robustness and uncover edge-case failures more efficiently.

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