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September 2019 by PDF Association staff
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Today the PDF Association publishes a new feature for PDF: a standardized mechanism allowing authors to define and share their own document profiles leveraging PDF technology.

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September 2019 by PDF Association staff (TWAIN Working Group)
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The TWAIN Working Group, a liaison member of the PDF Association, has just announced the release of TWAIN Direct, their … Read more

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August 2019 by PDF Association staff
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SQL Server’s Reporting Services will soon support the ISO standard for accessible PDF.

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August 2019 by PDF Association staff
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Event description Agenda Book now! Hotel recommendations PDF Days Europe 2020, the PDF industry’s premiere event, will take place in … Read more

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August 2019 by PDF Association staff
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In June 2019, the Electronic Document Conference was held. All 44 presentations were video-recorded and are available for those who … Read more

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August 2019 by Dietrich von Seggern
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This article was recently updated. The new version was posted on February 16, 2021. PDF is one of the most … Read more

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August 2019 by Elizabeth Thede
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Instead of retrieving and searching each file in its associated application, a search engine needs to review all files together … Read more

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July 2019 by Roman Toda (Normex)
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Users printing to PDF are throwing away information that could be reused by downstream applications. Find out how “Deriving HTML … Read more

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July 2019 by Duff Johnson
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After an impressive effort the Mueller Report is now available as a free EPUB file. What might have been in … Read more

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July 2019 by PDF Association staff
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The Open Preservation Foundation, a PDF Association liaison member, has announced the 1.14 release of the open source, industry-supported PDF/A validator, part … Read more

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July 2019 by Frode Hegland
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The Visual-Meta approach take the metadata out of of the document internals and presents it as an appendix at the … Read more

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