The PDF Association’s PDF cheat sheets are designed to help developers work more efficiently. They are highly condensed summaries, with information grouped to help inform on nuances or details that are often forgotten.
PDF is a large, complex specification! Developers often look for first steps in its implementation. This article offers some suggestions.
PDF Association members now have a new resource: advance previews of targeted test cases highlighting differences between implementations, including in-depth technical explanations.
This new corpus – nearly 8 million PDFs totaling about 8 TB – was gathered from across the web in July/August of 2021.
A new PDF Association service will provide targeted test-cases to highlight interoperability issues resolved in the latest PDF specification.
The joint Australian and New Zealand national committee on Records and Document Management Systems recommendation to both Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand to adopt PDF/A-4 was completed on 23 December 2022.
Adobe engineers have formally added support for Unicode 15 to the CMap resources for both Adobe-Japan1-7 and Adobe-KR-9 in the Adobe CMap Resources GitHub repository.
How ISO 19445 might be used with PDF 2.0 and related technology updates relevant to the graphic arts industry.
ISO TC 171 SC 2 is publishing new extensions and clarifications to PDF 2.0 in support of advanced cryptography.
Matthias Valvekens explains the difference and respective value of digital signatures vs. MAC-based technology for authenticating PDF files.