Duff Johnson
Chair of these communities: US TAG | TC171 SC2 US WG8 PDF | TC171 SC2 US WG9 AccessibilityDuff started working with PDF in 1996 when he founded Document Solutions, Inc. in Oakland, California.
Today, as CEO of the PDF Association, Duff coordinates industry activities in support of PDF technology.
Duff also serves in technical roles as Project Leader for ISO 14289 (PDF/UA) and as Project co-Leader for ISO 32000 (the PDF specification). He chairs the US Technical Advisory Committee (TAG) for ISO TC 171 SC 2, and serves as its Head of Delegation.
He can be reached at duff.johnson@pdfa.org.
Duff Johnson's Publications
News June 3, 2016
The veraPDF purpose-built validator for PDF/A now covers all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A.
News May 9, 2016
Apple’s latest tablet brings ColorSync functionality to iOS.
News May 5, 2016
Along with 65 new atomic test suite files, the 0.14 release features validation of all parts and conformance levels of … Read more
News April 28, 2016
PDF Association Executive Director Duff Johnson wins the Thomas Bagg Standards Award.
News April 8, 2016
PDF’s value-proposition is exemplified by a USB key developed to monitor temperatures in shipping containers.
News March 31, 2016
veraPDF 0.12 features improved PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b validation and a complete REST API.
News March 31, 2016
An optional PDF/UA conversion add-on will soon allow users to create PDF/UA documents from Google Docs.
News March 29, 2016
PDF/UA is the newest US National Standard, and it’s available for only $15 from aiim.org!
News March 21, 2016
It’s a milestone release for this open source, permissively-licensed Java software for PDF creation and processing.