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
PDF in the Wild December 18, 2023
Verizon is tricked by a fraudulent PDF, a family tree of PDF specifications, veraPDF is tops for the Open Preservation … Read more
Article December 11, 2023
Join this webinar to learn why PDF/X-1a was a good idea 20 years ago, but no longer today and find … Read more
Article December 10, 2023
The Imaging Model Technical Working Group (TWG) will now focus on the research, specification, and prototyping at the very core … Read more
PDF Association news November 29, 2023
The new VSCode extension by the PDF Association provides PDF syntax awareness to this popular editor, and is designed to … Read more
PDF Association news November 27, 2023
The PDF technical community will hold a series of online meetings during February 2024 to continue advancing the PDF file … Read more
PDF in the Wild November 15, 2023
We wanted to know how well ChatGPT processes PDF files. So we signed up for ChatGPT 4.0, the paid version, … Read more
Article October 27, 2023
5 years ago the PDF Accessibility LWG began a project to develop a set of accessibility techniques for PDF files. … Read more
PDF Association news October 23, 2023
PDF Week Fall 2023 in San Francisco covered subjects ranging from HDR to compression, color fonts, animation, accessibility and (much!) … Read more
PDF in the Wild October 12, 2023
The PDF Association is perhaps DARPA’s smallest-ever prime contractor. For DARPA’s SafeDocs program, however, it’s also the biggest success story.