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Accessible PDF documents are getting much more imported these days, not only forced by legal regulations. The PDF Association is actively engaged on developing standards in this area, PDF/UA-1 was this first step, PDF/UA-2 is in development. Additionally  helpful material, e.g. the “Matterhorn Protocol” and Tagged PDF Best Practice Guide: Syntax“ were published by the Association. … Read more

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ZUGFeRD 2.0 stärkt die elektronische Rechnung: Das hybride Format kombiniert PDF/A-3 mit eingebetteten XML-Daten und erfüllt EU-Vorgaben. Es etabliert sich zunehmend als Standard im B2B- und Behördenumfeld.

Was finden Sie im Buch »Barrierefreie PDF-Dokumente erstellen – Das Praxishandbuch für den Arbeitsalltag«?

Cover of PDF Products and Services 2019

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

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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.

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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

Die ISO bringt neue und weiterentwickelte PDF-Standards voran, die Archivierung, Barrierefreiheit und PDF 2.0 Funktionen künftig besser unterstützen.

We recently heard about many prepress production problems related to SVG fonts used in the layouts. In this blogpost, you’ll read what causes these issues, how you can resolve them and what it has to do with our recent ISO meetings in Toronto.

Datalogics recently brought FLIP2PDF, our newest PDF solution, to market. We’d been hearing for years that folks just like you needed an easy way to convert Microsoft Office files, images, and PostScript files to PDF. We created this new product because you asked for it! PDF is the most universally used document type in the world; … Read more

We’re excited to offer a free online demo of our newest conversion tool, FLIP2PDF. This quick and easy demo is streamlined to showcase results without the need to enter information or install the tool. Simply select a document from your local drive, choose your PDF output type, and click the button to convert your file. Within … Read more

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