PDF Association
Home of the worldwide PDF technical community
Originally launched as the PDF/A Competence Center in 2006, the organization’s original function was to promote common understanding of the PDF/A archival subset of the PDF format. It was during this period that the PDF Association developed its first set of PDF/A Technical Notes and the Isartor Test Suite, critical building-blocks for modern implementations of the PDF/A specification.
In 2009 the ISO confirmed the PDF/A Competence Center’s status as a category A liaison with ISO TC 171 SC 2, allowing the organization to act as a conduit for information between members and the ISO committees managing PDF and PDF subset standards.
In 2011 the PDF/A Competence Center became the PDF Association, and formally expanded its scope to include all PDF and PDF-related standards.
The mission of the PDF Association is to promote awareness and adoption of ISO-standardized PDF technology worldwide.
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Published Articles
PDF ISO standards fulfill certain requirements and is preferred in different sectors accordingly but they are not mutually … Read more
Die von der ISO zertifizieren PDF-Standards schließen sich nicht gegenseitig aus, wie folgende zwei Beispiele belegen.
Motherboard explores how PDFs became essential worldwide, transforming workflows since the 1990s and remaining vital for the future.
Slate shows how Manafort’s limited PDF know-how contributed to a flawed fraud attempt, leaving an avoidable digital trail … Read more
Adobe’s Acrobat DC update boosts accessibility tools, aligns with veraPDF validation, and adds support for PDF 2.0, reflecting … Read more
Duff Johnson argues PDF is the inevitable standard for digital records as agencies go paperless, though many still … Read more
For NARA and (in principle) for all US Federal agencies, paper is officially going obsolete (for records-keeping) in … Read more
August 2017, Duff Johnson
The Portable Document Format is perhaps the most common example of a de facto standard, so much so … Read more
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