The Open Preservation Foundation, a PDF Association liaison member, has announced the 1.14 release of the open source, industry-supported PDF/A validator, part of OPF’s reference toolset. The latest release includes bug fixes, feature requests and performance enhancements, including the latest resolutions from the PDF Association’s PDF Validation Technical Working Group. Download veraPDF 1.14, read the release notes., and review the user … Read more
What are the essential characteristics and optimal functional requirements of email messages and necessary related information in a PDF technology-based archive? This project sets out to answer that question.
For the two most common web formats – HTML and PDF – the relationship hasn’t been easy. Whenever PDF is used on a website it’s usually in the form of a download link. Rarely, the end user sees some sort of abstract or short description before leaving the website for some sort of PDF viewer. For … Read more
The SafeDocs research is intended to result in novel parser methodologies to ensure security in digital content.
The US Access Board who sets policy for US federal agencies and contractor’s deliverables has agreed to require PDF/UA.
We interviewed Kenny Swope about his keynote session at the Electronic Document Conference in Seattle, and asked him some questions about Boeing’s digital transformation.
As part of the 2019 Electronic Document Conference, the PDF Association has published an industry showcase entitled “PDF Products & Services 2019” featuring 23 PDF Association members. 3D PDF Consortium Adobe Antenna House Artifex axaio software callas software CommonLook Computing System Innovations Datalogics Eclipse Gear.IT Intarsys iText Nitro PDFTables PDF Tools PDFTron Qoppa SEAL Systems … Read more
How do you redact content in HTML? The format doesn’t really include that concept. In both principle and practice, committing to a rendering is definitive; final, portable and generic; it’s what the use case demands. Redaction demands PDF.
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
