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).
PDF Association staff's Publications
Member News November 10, 2017
Our API can easily verify a PDF against a number of profiles, including all the current variations of PDF/A and … Read more
Article, PDF Association news November 1, 2017
PDF is PDF because files produced with one vendor’s software can be read using a different vendor’s software with no … Read more
Article October 24, 2017
In zahlreichen Archiven schlummern immer noch unendlich viele Dateien im TIFF-Format. Dieses war in den 90ern durchaus en vogue. Die … Read more
Article October 12, 2017
NARA (The National Archives and Records Administration) is the final depository for the long-term records generated by all other agencies … Read more
PDF Association news October 9, 2017
Die PDF Association kooperiert mit dem Nationalarchiv der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und der Library of Congress, die sich für … Read more
Article October 3, 2017
For NARA and (in principle) for all US Federal agencies, paper is officially going obsolete (for records-keeping) in 2022.
PDF Association news September 27, 2017
The National Archives and Library of Congress joined the PDF Association to advocate for cultural heritage, influence PDF standards, and … Read more
PDF Association news August 30, 2017
PDF/raster, a strict subset of the PDF format, was designed for storing, transporting and exchanging multi-page raster-image documents, especially scanned … Read more