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SafeDocs’ latest research into securing PDF

May 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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The LangSec IEEE S&P Workshop this year includes several PDF-related presentations resulting from SafeDocs research including a paper by CTO Peter Wyatt.

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May 2021 by PDF Association staff
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An overview of industry working-group activities pertaining to tagged PDF.

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April 2021 by PDF Association staff
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Version 1.18 of veraPDF, the industry-supported PDF/A validator, is now available for download, and now includes support for PDF/UA-1 (machine … Read more

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April 2021 by PDF Association staff
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The document promotes adoption of the ISO standard for accessible PDF by software developers, service bureaus and others interested in … Read more

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April 2021 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF community was saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Chuck Geschke, one of the visionaries who helped … Read more

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April 2021 by PDF Association staff
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A domain-specific subset of PDF, PDF/R is simple to generate and interpret, allowing it to replace the TIFF and JPEG … Read more

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April 2021 by Duff Johnson
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Standards development works best when the expert community is open to diverse and dissenting views. The door is already open … Read more

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April 2021 by Patrick Gallot
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A new Technical Working Group will develop guidance and best-practices for the RichMedia annotation defined in PDF 2.0.

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April 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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This PDF file tests parsing valid combinations of adjacent PDF tokens both in the body of a PDF as well … Read more

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March 2021 by Thomas Zellmann
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Thomas Zellmann, evangelist from the PDF Association, explains why PDF is not only “digital paper” but also one of the … Read more

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March 2021 by PDF Association staff
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The Technical University of Dresden has created very compact and clear instructions that describe in an easy-to-understand manner how to … Read more

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