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The National Archives, PDF/A-4

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.

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The members of the PDF Association have adopted a new Intellectual Property Rights Policy to make it easier for experts to share their knowledge.

Thomas Zellmann, Evangelist der PDF Association, beschreibt die neue Spezifikation PDF/A-4 und beschreibt die Vorteile der Novellierung des Standards für die Langzeitarchivierung.

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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.

ISO 32000-2:2020 and subsets.

Die PDF Association erläutert, wie sich die Revision von PDF 2.0 auf die neuen Normteile PDF/A-4, PDF/X-6, PDF/VT-3 und PDF/R-1 auswirken.

callas software today revealed callas pdfDPartner, an Adobe Acrobat plugin used to view DPart metadata in PDF documents

callas software hat heute mit callas pdfDPartner ein Adobe-Acrobat-Plugin zur Anzeige von DPart-Metadaten in PDF-Dokumenten vorgestellt.

How do companies stay agile enough in their document and output management to meet increasing customer expectations for speed and quality?

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To support industry uptake of PDF 2.0, the specification’s ISO Project Leaders, working through the PDF Association, have established a public GitHub repository to facilitate the reporting of issues against ISO 32000-2:2020.

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27 years after Adobe shipped the first PDF viewer the portable document format has replaced paper as the final format document media of choice. For many organizations 2020 – the year of COVID-19 – has become an “acid test” for digital transformation strategies, and has prompted many organizations to accelerate their digitization projects, a trend … Read more

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