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The Power of the Page

November 2017 by Duff Johnson
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It’s a question that vexes vendors of web-based solutions everywhere: why do people still insist on PDF files? And why does PDF’s mindshare keep going up? “PDF is such antediluvian technology!” … Read more

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November 2017 by PDF Association staff
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PDF is PDF because files produced with one vendor’s software can be read using a different vendor’s software with no … Read more

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October 2017 by PDF Association staff
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Writing in Government Computing News, PDF Executive Director Duff Johnson highlights NARA’s recently-published draft strategic plan and its stated objective … Read more

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October 2017 by PDF Association staff
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NARA (The National Archives and Records Administration) is the final depository for the long-term records generated by all other agencies … Read more

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October 2017 by PDF Association staff
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This PDF Association’s end-user educational event is intended for the managers, executives and professionals developing institutional strategies for managing electronic … Read more

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October 2017 by PDF Association staff
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For NARA and (in principle) for all US Federal agencies, paper is officially going obsolete (for records-keeping) in 2022.

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September 2017 by PDF Association staff
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Federal agencies will advocate for cultural heritage communities in a vendor-neutral environment Berlin, Germany. The National Archives and the Library … Read more

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August 2017 by PDF Association staff
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PDF/raster, a strict subset of the PDF format, was designed for storing, transporting and exchanging multi-page raster-image documents, especially scanned … Read more

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August 2017 by Duff Johnson
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The Portable Document Format is perhaps the most common example of a de facto standard, so much so that Wikipedia … Read more

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August 2017 by PDF Association staff
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The latest release of veraPDF, the industry-supported PDF/A validator, is now available for download.

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August 2017 by Matt Kuznicki
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The PDF Association is proud to present the first PDF 2.0 example files made available to the public. Created and … Read more

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