We’ve made a significant change to members’ news handling on pdfa.org, and we believe members will appreciate the results! Members’ News posts now appear by default alongside all other posts on the main pdfa.org/news landing page. The red “featured articles” block at the top of the page will remain populated with three editorially-selected posts (articles … Read more
As reported within hours by Quartz, four days after its initial release and fanfare-free, the US Department of Justice re-posted the Mueller Report PDF with a few improvements. They also added a few problems that really shouldn’t be present in such a significant historical document. The Mueller Report A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the … Read more
On April 19 we published an analysis of the Mueller report PDF released by the US Department of Justice. Further analysis of the PDF file reveals an additional serious problem. Even after running OCR software, the report isn’t truly searchable. Take-aways The workflow DoJ chose for releasing the PDF of Mueller’s report makes the work of … Read more
It’s too bad that such important historical documents are nonetheless posted as such low-quality PDF files. We provide commentary.
Author of over 15 books and a guru to generations of graphic designers, David Blatner is a legend in digital publishing. He’s also the keynote speaker opening the 2nd day of the Electronic Document Conference in Seattle on June 18. David’s own conference focused on graphic arts education – CreativePro Week – is also in Seattle, and … Read more
The sessions at #EDCSEATTLE2019 may be interesting and relevant, but you still have to convince your boss to let you go! A developer (we’ll call him “Sam”) just told us a story about how his conversation went with his boss. We thought we’d reproduce it here in lightly edited form. Sam suggested that we provide … Read more
The educational sessions at #EDC2019 will be led by a wide range of experts from a variety of sectors. From accessibility to ZUGFeRD, there’s lots of interest for anyone working in electronic document technologies.
When I’m not working for the PDF Association I still do some consulting in the document management space. Some recent conversations prompted me to revisit an assessment I wrote four years ago exploring a typical conversation between PDF technology providers and PDF technology users. Has anything changed? As will be discussed at the upcoming Electronic Document … Read more
This year, the Electronic Document Conference (EDC) is being held in the same city and only days after CreativePro Week — a great event that combines The InDesign Conference, Ps/Ai: The Photoshop + Illustrator Conference for Designers, PePcon: Bridging Print + Digital Publishing, and Click: The Presentation Design Conference! CreativePro Week is June 10–14 in … Read more
On February 25, 2019, researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and Hackmanit GmbH published pdf-insecurity.org, a detailed explanation of several vulnerabilities they had identified in PDF viewers and online validation services relevant to signature validation in digitally-signed PDF documents. The vulnerabilities are pertinent only to such digitally-signed documents, and not to PDF in general. These vulnerabilities identified change … Read more
