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Making it easy to convert for long-term archiving

The growing importance of digital long-term archiving in companies cannot be overstated – and not just in terms of fulfilling legal requirements and retention times.

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Announcing the Aligning PDF/A and PDF/X LWG

The PDF Association has volunteered to host a new Liaison Working Group (LWG) to bring together experts from both PDF/X and PDF/A communities.



Making PDF/A conversion easier

PDF/A – the ISO standard for long-term archiving – now has four sub-standards. This raises an obvious question: which one should businesses use for document conversion and archival? Dietrich von Seggern from callas software gives the answer.

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Australia and New Zealand jointly adopt PDF/A-4

The joint Australian and New Zealand national committee on Records and Document Management Systems recommendation to both Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand to adopt PDF/A-4 was completed on 23 December 2022.

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Why it’s ever more important to digitize your human resource processes and what PDF has to do with it

Have you noticed how the workflows in human resource departments are becoming more and more complex? And if that wasn’t enough, a shortage of qualified workers and the costly search for potential hires mean that even less time is available …

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callas software releases pdfaPilot 12

callas software today releases a major update to its pdfaPilot product line.

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Practical advice on using some of the most used PDF subset standards

Dietrich von Seggern and Akash Choudhary from callas software and David van Driessche from Four Pees are presenting at this year’s PDF Days Europe sharing practical advice on using some of the most used PDF subset standards.

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callas software releases pdfChip app for Enfocus Switch

Berlin. callas software has announced that it has released an pdfChip app for Enfocus Switch, which is available on the Enfocus Appstore now. pdfChip is a command-line application for the creation of high-quality PDF from HTML, taking full advantage of …

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PDF/A Basics

This post provides users with a quick overview of PDF/A explaining what it is, why it should be used, what is important about it and how to create PDF/A files.

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Why PDF matters to Information Governance

This Global Information Governance Day it’s time to focus on how better PDF = better IG. #GIGD

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