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EA-PDF: archiving email using PDF

February 2025 by PDF Association staff

Email is one of the most ubiquitous forms of communication in personal and professional contexts. Organizations worldwide rely on email at almost every level of daily operations, but they lack options for effectively preserving and accessing email over long periods of time.

Due to its widespread use and importance as an asynchronous communication medium, many organizations need to preserve and provide access to email messages. Although the transmission of completed emails is necessarily standardized, the wide variety of open and proprietary email file formats and systems creates challenges for long-term preservation

EA-PDF defines a mechanism for offline preservation of email source data together with a reliable static rendition of the email data. Based on existing ISO 19005 standards for archival-quality PDF files (PDF/A-3 and PDF/A-4f), EA-PDF provides institutions, corporations, and individuals with many benefits. The specification may be downloaded from the PDF Association’s website at no charge.

Tools for Accessible PDF – relating tags and content

January 2025 by PDF Association staff
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A list of PDF Association members’ free and commercial software that exposes the relationship between a PDF’s page content and tags.

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January 2025 by PDF Association staff
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These new Techniques for Accessible PDF are designed to help software developers, document authors, and remediators create accessible PDF files … Read more

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November 2024 by Melina Tusch
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Use the PDF Association’s free XML invoice viewer and find our members’ e-invoicing solutions.

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July 2024 by PDF Association staff
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The latest PDF 2.0 Errata Collection 2 is a complete update and replacement for the previous no-cost sponsored edition of … Read more

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June 2024 by PDF Association staff
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A new members-only resource supports forensic experts tasks with examination of PDF files.

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May 2024 by PDF Association staff
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The latest ISO Extension to PDF 2.0 offers backwards-compatible integrity protection via Message Authentication Code (MAC).

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April 2024 by PDF Association staff
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A new ISO extension to PDF 2.0 adds PDF support for the Khronos Group’s glTF 3D format.

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March 2024 by PDF Association staff
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Based on WTPDF, ISO 14289-2 serves to assure institutions that the PDF Association’s requirements for creating and validating accessible PDF … Read more

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December 2023 by PDF Association staff
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PDF Week Online 2024 consists of 16 PDF Association Working Group meetings and 2 ISO working group meetings.

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November 2023 by PDF Association staff
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The new VSCode extension by the PDF Association provides PDF syntax awareness to this popular editor, and is designed to … Read more

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September 2023 by Peter Wyatt
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PDF developers everywhere have a new resource; targeted test cases highlighting differences between implementations.

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