Earlier in 2017 both the US Library of Congress and NARA joined the PDF Association as Liaison members, an option available to non-profit and governmental organizations interested in contributing to the development and best-practice of PDF technology. As the archival records-manager for the federal government, NARA’s interest in PDF is clear-cut; PDF files are routinely used as electronic … Read more
What is a “document”? A document is a record of some (typically written) content – a publication, a contract, a statement, a painting – at a moment in time. Until the advent of computers (and scanners), the media typically considered useable for such records included papyrus and vellum, which is basically leather. For a thousand … Read more
SD Times, a leading periodical targeting systems and application developers, has featured PDF in its December 2017 publication. The journalists at SD Times interviewed various members of the PDF technology community, including experts from several PDF Association member companies, to get their read on how PDF is faring in the marketplace, what PDF 2.0 means, … Read more
Datalogics, the premier source for PDF, EdTech and eBook technologies, announces the release of PDF OPTIMIZER – a powerful new command-line utility that simplifies the PDF file size reduction process for more efficient file sharing and faster downloads. PDF OPTIMIZER features core functionalities such as stream compression, image manipulation, font subsetting, and object clean up. Now available … Read more