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Electronic Document Conference: Call for Papers

November 2018 by Duff Johnson
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This event allows those engaged with electronic document technology focusing on developers, product managers, professional document users, creative professionals and others, to exchange views and discuss subjects of common interest. … Read more

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November 2018 by PDF Association staff
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Anticipating the new Japanese era name, the Unicode Consortium announced its reservation of U+32FF for this purpose. PDF developers should … Read more

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November 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF and the User survey is back for a fourth year. This survey is designed to capture the perceptions … Read more

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October 2018 by Duff Johnson
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How do we gain insight into how users’ views of documents are shifting? Google Trends is an increasingly interesting source … Read more

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October 2018 by PDF Association staff
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This Application Note provides technical background to the definition of Associated Files in PDF 2.0. It is intended for developers … Read more

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October 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association has started to overhaul its website, with the first such change being a new search engine, installed … Read more

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October 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Techniques Accessibility Summit’s objective is to establish a broad-based understanding of how PDF files should be tagged for … Read more

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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. … 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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