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September 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The typical adoption curve for PDF technologies until approximately 2007 tended to track with that of the original PDF developer. Since then the marketplace has shifted; it’s no longer clear … Read more

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September 2018 by PDF Association staff
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New in PDF 2.0, black point compensation (BPC) is a colour management technique allowing for the alignment of the darkest … Read more

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September 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The industry-supported PDF/A validator created by an EU project, veraPDF is one of four finalists for the Digital Preservation Award … Read more

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August 2018 by PDF Association staff
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PDF Processing Steps allows packaging and product developers and designers to specify post-print workflow components with a PDF file in … Read more

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August 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The Future of Email Archives report calls for the development of email archiving specifications leveraging PDF.

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August 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Techniques Accessibility Summit will identify best-practices in tagging various cases in PDF documents. Questions to be addressed will … Read more

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August 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The US Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching a SafeDocs project to develop methods and tools … Read more

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My hospital emailed me a medical records release form as a PDF. They told me to print it, fill it, … Read more

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July 2018 by PDF Association staff
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On July 23, 2018 alone, three distinct announcements of PDF 2.0 support from Adobe, Agfa and OneVision appeared in your … Read more

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June 2018 by PDF Association staff
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You missed the PDF Days Europe 2018? Never mind! Here you can find the slides and video recordings of all … Read more

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June 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The world has changed since 1993. PDF, introduced 25 years ago today, has become the dominant final-form electronic document format … Read more

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