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Berlin. Die PDF Association und das 3D PDF Consortium haben sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die umfassenden Möglichkeiten des PDF-Formats in der Fertigungsindustrie zu veranschaulichen. Dazu haben die beiden internationalen Verbände eine Informationsbroschüre erarbeitet. Diese stellt auf mehr als 40 Seiten die breite Palette fertigungsrelevanter Technologien dar, die im PDF-Format integriert sind. Die Broschüre „PDF in … Read more

PDFTron recently introduced a complete guide to PDF.js, a comprehensive blog series packed with useful intelligence, videos, and infographics that detail PDF.js’s genesis, behavior, trajectory, and technical aspects.

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The latest release of the industry-supported PDF/A validator has been released. An open source project developed by the Open Preservation Foundation and the PDF Association, veraPDF includes four components: The implementation checker validating all parts and conformance levels of ISO 19005 The policy checker, which facilitates the addition of custom checks to enforce institutional policy beyond … Read more

The IT industry has embarked on a new topic: Robotic Process Automation (RPA). It covers the automation of processes by eliminating manual activities to a large extent, so software solutions can take over. With today’s processor speed and increasingly sophisticated algorithms in software applications, IT can now carry out increasingly complex requirements faster and, for … Read more

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The PDF Association and the 3D PDF Consortium have partnered to develop a high-level introduction to the role and capabilities of PDF technology with respect to manufacturing.

Datalogics is very proud to announce PDF Forms Flattener, a scriptable server tool available now on Windows 64-bit platforms.  Powered by our recently released Forms Extension for the Adobe PDF Library, this is a simple-to-use command line program for “flattening” PDFs containing interactive forms, including both XFA and AcroForm documents.  It also supports importing data … Read more

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The objective of the draft report on archiving email with PDF is to describe how advanced PDF-based capture, preservation, rendering, and distribution options for email can deliver long-term value to organizations, communities, and everyday users.

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Berlin. Die amerikanische Tochtergesellschaft der PDF Association wurde vom American National Standards Institute (ANSI) bevollmächtigt, als Administrator der Technical Advisory Group für die USA zu fungieren. Die Technical Advisory Group gehört zum ISO Technical Committee (TC) 171, Subcommitee (SC) 2, das sich auf das PDF-Format, PDF-Varianten, inklusive PDF/A und PDF/UA, sowie verwandte Dateiformate konzentriert. Damit … Read more

ISO meeting

The PDF Association is now accredited by ANSI to serve as the ANSI-accredited U.S, Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Administrator for the U.S. TAG to ISO TC 171 SC 2, the working groups responsible for the PDF specification and several of its subset standards.

We are excited to announce our newest version of FLIP2PDF, which is our scriptable server tool that gives users better control over their file conversion process. The latest release (version 1.3) offers an important feature that we are proud to say is now available – HTML to PDF conversion! Say goodbye to the days of … Read more

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