Duff founded and led several businesses in the electronic document industry. Today, as CEO of the PDF Association, Duff coordinates a variety of industry activities worldwide pertaining to the advancement and adoption of PDF technology. In addition to his PDF Association responsibilities Duff serves in technical roles as Project Leader for ISO 14289 (PDF/UA) and as Project co-Leader for ISO 32000 (the PDF specification). He also 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 founded and led several businesses in the electronic document industry. Today, as CEO of the PDF Association, Duff coordinates a variety of industry activities worldwide pertaining to the advancement and adoption of PDF technology. In addition to his PDF Association responsibilities Duff serves in technical roles as Project Leader for ISO 14289 (PDF/UA) and as Project co-Leader for ISO 32000 (the PDF specification). He also 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.
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Standards development works best when the expert community is open to diverse and dissenting views. The door is already open to the government to listen, participate and propose. If it isn’t broken don’t try to …
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On World Standards Day 2021 the PDF Association celebrates PDF’s connection to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Our Executive Director Duff Johnson gives some personally information about his experience with the “PDF universe” and much more.
Session Description: Everyone understands paper’s features, and how it “works”. For PDF, “full-function” isn’t really defined. 4 PDF experts will discuss under moderation from Duff Johnson, Executive Director of the PDF Association, how to encourage …
The Associated Files feature allows PDF 2.0 writers to provide additional information related to a PDF 2.0 object in a standardized and interoperable machine-readable manner.
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