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 September 24, 2015
Announcing a new 3D PDF solution using PRC.
News September 23, 2015
Paper is still with us: “Digital books accounted last year for around 20 percent of the market, roughly the same … Read more
News September 21, 2015
2 PDF-packed days; 3 tracks, 37 sessions, and two great keynote speakers: Adobe’s Phil Ydens and Silent Circle’s Jon Callas!
News September 17, 2015
The 0.4 release includes the first complete (in principle) PDF/A-1b validation profile, and while unverified, tests well against the internal … Read more
News September 3, 2015
Official PDF Association PDF/A and PDF/UA flyers updated
News August 28, 2015
PDF creation is now native in Windows.
News August 27, 2015
The complete specification for Unicode 8.0 is now available, with 7,716 new characters.
News July 15, 2015
Release 0.2 of veraPDF does not yet perform PDF/A validation, but as a proof-of-concept it demonstrates the approach selected for … Read more
News July 10, 2015
Link-farming with PDF (still) fools Google. What are they parsing, and what are they doing with what they get?