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Industry Working Groups

The various Working Groups of the PDF Association reflect the diverse range of subjects and constituencies we serve. Community activities include:

Promoting exchange between developers focusing in various subdomains
Oversight and policies for industry-accepted validation software such as veraPDF
Research and development of new PDF extensions and use cases
Development of industry standards, best practices, test suites and other aides to interoperability
Developing informational resources for PDF developers and users

Technical Working Groups

PDF Association members-only

PDF errata, new features and ISO 32000.

Archiving PDF, including ISO 19005.

Accessible PDF, including oversight of ISO 14289.

Personalized and variable data PDF, including ISO 16612.

Raster PDF from imaging systems, including ISO 23504.

PDF Digital Signatures TWG

Digital signing and validation.

Advancing forms technology in PDF.

Reusing PDF content, including “well-tagged” PDF.

Video, audio and interactive media in PDF.

Deriving HTML from PDF TWG

Exploring pathways to expressing PDF content in HTML.

PDF support for engineering applications.

Liasion Working Groups

PDF Association members and non-member subject matter experts

Aligning PDF/A and PDF/X LWG

Synchronizing PDF/A and PDF/X.

Developing common understandings and a standard reference model for the long-term preservation of text documents.

PDF/UA Processor LWG

Formalizing common understandings on processing tagged PDF.

Archiving email using PDF.

3D PDF User LWG

User requirements for PDF in engineering applications.

LaTeX Project LWG

Supporting generation of tagged PDF directly from LaTeX.

Print Product Metadata LWG

Supporting print industry awareness and adoption of ISO 21812.

PDF Accessibility LWG

Developing techniques and examples for accessible PDF.

Marketing Working Groups

PDF Association members subject matter experts

PDF Technology MWG

Promoting greater awareness of PDF technology and its capabilities.

US TAG (ANSI) for TC 171 SC 2

Subject matter experts registered with ISO

Technical Advisory Group establishing the US position for TC 171 SC 2.

TC171 SC2 US WG5 Archival

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 5.

TC171 SC2 US WG7 Engineering

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 7.

TC171 SC2 US WG8 PDF

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 8.

TC171 SC2 US WG9 Accessibility

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 9.

TC171 SC2 US WG10 File formats

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 10.

TC171 SC2 US WG11 Trusted system

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 11.

TC171 SC2 US WG12 Metadata

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 12

Best practices on managing ESI.

Promoting awareness of StratML.

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