PDF optimization (or lack of it) impacts your printing environment’s costs and savings. We continue to see print and digital production processes move to the PDF file format as a standard.
PDF/A-4 is essential to losslessly archiving PDF files that use current-generation PDF 2.0 technology… even including scanned documents. From modern Unicode support to interoperability with other specifications PDF/A-4 is the only way to archive PDF files conforming to PDF 2.0.
Thomas Zellmann, Evangelist der PDF Association, beschreibt die neue Spezifikation PDF/A-4 und beschreibt die Vorteile der Novellierung des Standards für die Langzeitarchivierung.
The LaTeX Project recently became a Liaison Member of the PDF Association to help accelerate the development of tagged and accessible PDF produced from LaTeX.