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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.

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February 2025 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association is pleased to invite our members to PDF Week Boston 2025.

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January 2025 by Peter Wyatt
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What’s the smallest possible fully compliant and validatable PDF file? We set out to answer the question.

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January 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Doom in a PDF | PDF Week Boston 2025 | The EAA is coming! | AI and accessibility standards | … Read more

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January 2025 by Peter Wyatt
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Triggered by our own experience in preparing the cheat sheet collection, this article explores the capabilities of PDF collections and … Read more

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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 … Read more

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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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December 2024 by PDF Association staff
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We’re bringing back PDF Days by popular demand! Join the world’s PDF experts in Berlin this coming September for two … Read more

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December 2024 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association is now recognizing, on an annual basis, a single volunteer who has made major contributions to the … Read more

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December 2024 by Duff Johnson
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Most people searching for “pdf” are interested in a document, not the file format. Google Trends data offers a window … Read more

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December 2024 by PDF Association staff
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A close-up look at how PDF does text | What would Patton think? | Word bug blocks PDF/UA validators, Happy … Read more

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