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The end of paper, the leveraging of PDF

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 of eliminating paper as a medium for records by the … 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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August 2017 by PDF Association staff
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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has announced the publication of ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0), the latest version of the … Read more

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July 2017 by PDF Association staff
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Replacing AIIM at the US TAG Administrator and secretary for ISO TC 171 SC 2, the 3D PDF Consortium, a … Read more

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