A PDF/A document requires that all resources such as fonts, color profiles, etc. must be embedded in the file. The archiving of transactional documents can be nightmare because such documents are usually short by nature and contain huge number of copies of the same Frutiger font, sRGB color profile and company logo. Many archives therefore … Read more
A 5 minute survey providing insight into the way people think about electronic documents vs. documents on paper. The questions invite the user to reflect on how they use (or don’t use) electronic documents to get things done.
The PDF Day events in Washington DC and New York City offer executives and managers high-level, non-commercial information to improve their understanding of how PDF fits into their technology infrastructure, and what they could do to further leverage it.
Yvonne Friese, ZBW, shares her thoughts about her first PDF Hackathon.
If you try to extract images from a PDF file it sometimes happens that you get a bunch of slices of the original image, mostly consisting of a few image rows per slice or, in extreme cases, just one row. Why is that and how can you get the entire image in one piece? Get … Read more
In document processing, nothing works without meaningful metadata at least not if you want to automate it. The XMP format is key.
Böblingen/Frankfurt, 9. September 2014 Compart und die auf Adressmanagement und Versandoptimierung spezialisierte ABIS GmbH haben einen OEM-Vertrag für Deutschland geschlossen. Danach werden Lösungen der ABIS, einer Tochtergesellschaft der Deutschen Post Adress GmbH & Co. KG (Gütersloh) in die von Compart entwickelte Dokumenten-Management-Lösung DocBridge Pilot integriert und gemeinsam vertrieben. Dies betrifft die Porto- und Versandoptimierung … Read more
A central service to convert Microsoft Office documents to PDF or PDF/A has obvious advantages. The conversion is done on an enterprise wide platform with well defined software versions and conversion process configurations. This guarantees a consistent quality and makes the deployment and operation of client based software obsolete. The price for this, however, is … Read more
If you use validation software from different manufacturers you sometimes get different results. Why can this happen? Does it mean that you can’t trust the software? What can you do about it? We hear these and more questions very often and we can understand the user’s concerns. In this article we try to shed some … Read more
Do you sometimes get a little shock when you wanted to open a PDF file and the viewer only showed an error message? In some cases, however, the viewer can save the file and repair it, but often not. This experience made us think about a repair tool. There may be various reasons for a … Read more