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A new resource collating all ISO groups and currently active work items related to PDF has been developed. Based on public information, this summary is invaluable for all PDF developers to ensure awareness of forthcoming changes in PDF-related standards.

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More and more, magazines are available on tablets or other mobile platforms. The subscriber uses the respective app to view the magazine pages, but in many cases the internal format is actually PDF. In this article, we want to have a look at what is needed to turn a print-ready PDF into lightweight performant PDF pages.

FeRD und FNFE-MPE publizieren einen EN 16931 konformen und frei zugänglichen Standard.

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Vor der problematischen Entwicklung von COVID-19 in zahlreichen Ländern sehen sich viele Unternehmen gezwungen, Mitarbeiter ins Homeoffice zu schicken. Für große Organisationen und viele Firmen ist das Thema des Arbeitens von zu Hause nicht neu. Sie haben qualifiziertes und sachkundiges IT-Personal, virtuelle private Netzwerke (VPN), Ersatz-Laptops, eine Bring-your-own-Device (BYOD)-Infrastruktur, webbasierte Portale für geschäftskritische Systeme, Cloud-basierte … Read more

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Now available from ISO: the Draft International Standard (DIS) version of the latest ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) standard is ready for download. Notable changes include support for Reiwa, the new Japanese era, and additional clarifications and corrections.

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Ailing economies around the world need every advantage in these difficult times. On the other side of today’s crisis a new WFH/SFH paradigm may influence decision makers to rethink past decisions.

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As much as we were looking forward to PDF Days Europe 2020, including celebrating with our colleagues and friends, the coronavirus and related dynamics affecting both speakers and attendees has led us to conclude that the event is no longer feasible.

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The Signal, a Library of Congress blog, has a new post about archiving with PDF by the Library of Congress’ Kate Murray, the PDF Association’s Duff Johnson, and Kevin De Vorsey of the National Archives and Records Administration.

We are excited to announce the general availability of iText DITO v. 1.3. This latest release of iText’s low-code PDF generator contains several new features and optimizations of existing capabilities, all targeted towards the realization of iText’s mission to provide a high-convenience PDF generation product that combines WYSIWYG template design in the browser, with a powerful PDF generation engine built to handle enterprise-level requirements and volumes.

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