PDF Association staff

The PDF Association staff delivers a vendor-neutral platform for PDF's stakeholders, facilitating the development of open specifications and ISO standards for PDF technology. The staff are located in Germany, the United States and Australia.

Staff members include:

Alexandra Oettler (Editor),
Betsy Fanning (Standards Director),
Duff Johnson (Chief Executive Officer),
Melina Tusch (Member Benefit Manager),
Matthias Wagner (CFO & Operations Director),
Peter Wyatt (Chief Technology Officer),
Thomas Zellmann (PDF Evangelist).

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PDF Association staff's Publications

PDF Association news January 27, 2021

Making LaTeX produce tagged and accessible PDF

The LaTeX Project recently became a Liaison Member of the PDF Association to help accelerate the development of tagged and … Read more

January 14, 2021

PDF Association erklärt die neuen PDF-Standards

Die PDF Association erläutert, wie sich die Revision von PDF 2.0 auf die neuen Normteile PDF/A-4, PDF/X-6, PDF/VT-3 und PDF/R-1 … Read more

Article December 30, 2020

2020: the year in PDF

In 2020, accelerated by COVID-19 and remote work, PDF reached global peak relevance. As digitization surged, the format solidified its … Read more

Article December 16, 2020

The new PDF 2.0 and subset standards

A brief survey of ISO 32000-2:2020 and its associated subset standards for archiving, print, transactional and variable print and raster … Read more

PDF Association news December 14, 2020

ISO 32000-2:2020 is now available

The 2020 edition includes a number of critical updates to normative references as well as other corrections and clarifications. It … Read more

PDF Association news December 4, 2020

Proposed Regulation for Digitizing US Government Records

The US National Archives and Records Administration’s new proposal for standardization of digitization of permanent federal records is available for … Read more

PDF Association news November 30, 2020