The Electronic Document Conference is a do-not-miss event for developers, product managers and technical users creating and leveraging electronic document technology. Learn more! Meet the educational session speakers! Check out the sponsored seminars! Convince your boss to let you go! Why you need to attend Register now! Learn more! Meet the educational session speakers! Check out … Read more
The PDF Association, the meeting place of the PDF industry, decided to create the Electronic Document Conference for a simple reason. PDF’s relationship with other document-related technologies is expanding. Even in a world that runs on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the need for a portable, reliable, self-contained document continues to grow. Why? It’s not simply … Read more
Today PDF documents are widely used for statements and legal contracts. We suggest expanding the use of PDF documents to keep electronic receipts of all important transactions. Simply storing scattered data in a database is an unreliable solution for long term archiving. Visual documents that are locked and approved by all parties can provide safe immovable records.
We’ve done PDF Day events and technical conferences across Europe, in the US, in Australia, and elsewhere. This Electronic Document Conference is the first PDF Association event that’s open to all technologies pertaining to documents. It’s about exploring the ways in which new kinds of data, structures and networks meet old kinds of ideas (and … Read more
To complement existing Working Groups, the Board of Directors has decided to allow the creation of Liaison Working Groups (LWGs) to promote interaction with third-party standards-development communities. LWGs are created to meet specific objectives, typically restricted to a narrow vertical marketplace. How LWGs differ from TWGs LWGs may include individuals who are not members of … Read more
A new year brings new things, and 2019 is no exception! There are many exciting new developments under-way for the PDF Association, including a new website and new features to better serve our members. The “four red blocks” logo was first created for the PDF/A Competence Center in 2006. In 2011, when the organization became … Read more
The Portable Document Format is perhaps the most common example of a de facto standard, so much so that Wikipedia features PDF on its “de facto standards” page. From Ethernet and 802.11 to HTTP and CSS, the modern computing stack consists of hundreds of standards. The way in which PDF exemplifies the specific value of … Read more
