Leonard Rosenthol
Chair of these communities: TC171 SC2 US WG12 Metadata | PDF Forms TWG | PDF/A TWGCo-Chair of these communities: Imaging Model TWG
Leonard Rosenthol is a member of the PDF Association Board of Directors.
Leonard Rosenthol is the Senior Principal Architect for PDF & the Document Cloud at Adobe, having been involved with PDF technology for more than 20 years. He represents Adobe on various international standards bodies including the ISO (where he is the Project Editor for PDF/A, PDF/X and PDF/E), W3C and ETSI/ESI (where he authored the PDF Electronic Signature standard, PAdES). Prior to re-joining Adobe in 2006, Leonard worked as the Director of Software Development for Appligent, and the Chief Innovation Officer for Apago, while also running the successful consulting business of PDF Sages. Before becoming involved in PDF, Leonard was the Director of Advanced Technology for Aladdin Systems and was responsible for the development of the StuffIt line of products.
Leonard Rosenthol's Publications
Article July 21, 2021
The Technical Working Group’s chair explains the current missions of the PDF Forms TWG; a declarative model for business logic, … Read more
Presentation May 26, 2021
Come learn about new standards from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) and how this impacts PDF and … Read more
Presentation July 14, 2020
Come and learn how an idea becomes a standard! We’ll look at some recent work driven by the PDF Association … Read more
Presentation January 7, 2020
This session will cover (at a high level) the various projects that are happening at various ISO committees to advance … Read more
Presentation June 17, 2019
News June 13, 2018
The ISO committee for PDF/A committee could see into the future. 5 years into the future, to be exact.
Article August 30, 2017
The Portable Document Format is perhaps the most common example of a de facto standard, so much so that Wikipedia … Read more
Article June 13, 2017
2017 marks a record number of attendees / Experts shared fully-grounded wisdom on PDF standards across the two-day event Berlin. … Read more