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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Staff
Published Articles
April 2019, Duff Johnson
When I’m not working for the PDF Association I still do some consulting in the document management space. … Read more
March 2019, Duff Johnson
On February 25, 2019, researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and Hackmanit GmbH published pdf-insecurity.org, a detailed explanation of several … Read more
March 2019, Dietrich von Seggern
Nach der Studie Digital Office Index 2018 des Bitkom nutzt mittlerweile die Mehrheit der Unternehmen Enterprise Content Management … Read more
February 2019, PDF Association staff
The PDF Association, the meeting place of the PDF industry, decided to create the Electronic Document Conference for … Read more
February 2019, Nicole Gauger
Geschäftskunden der Deutschen Post können digitale Kopien von Briefen auch elektronisch an registrierte Privatpersonen, die E-POST nutzen, senden. … 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
July 2017, PDF Association staff
The Portable Document Format (commonly known as “PDF”) is a file format developed in the early 1990s as … Read more
April 2016, PDF Association staff
For ECM professionals, PDF deserves your attention to maximize utility… and minimize risk.
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