PDF industry presentations
The PDF Association hosts a library of recordings of educational presentations by members and guest speakers at industry events. This collection, now including downloadable slide decks in many cases, is now accessible from pdfa.org.
All presentations are posted as received from the speaker. The PDF Association does not take responsibility for presentation content, comments by attendees or the speakers’ downloadable PDF files.
We can and must do better if PDF is to remain reliable, portable, and relevant – and thus grow into the future for all its stakeholders. And now, we have that chance… |
Today’s hardware provides several options to leverage in the rendering of documents. These include multi-cores, single instruction multiple data (SIMD) intrinsics, and general-purpose graphic processing units (GPGPUs). In this talk, we will explore the use of some of these methods …
Anyone with PDF accessibility experience knows it can be technical and can get complicated quickly. Every day, organizations are looking for better, faster, and easier solutions to solve the problem including looking at automation. Sure, an automated solution that fixes …
We provide the detailed analysis of the current state of art of Math accessibility in PDF publications. It covers the complete document flow from the Authoring software to the Accessibility AT. In the center of this flow we have the …
The new Accessibility Information Label for electronic documents gives anyone who distributes electronic documents a simple and free method to demonstrate support for people with disabilities by disclosing accessibility information through a standard electronic label.
Removal of sensitive information from public documents is increasingly important, particularly for privacy concerns. Redaction is a critical operation that requires multiple steps and the expertise to execute accurately. We’ll review the internal syntax of a document, looking at the …
This paper discusses the importance of documentation limitations, and the problems they can create, identifies the role of PDF with packaged extra-contents as the best relying technology to quickly deliver, store and browse technical manuals in a heavy-duty environment. By …
This talk reviews how the use of blockchain technology can benefit document workflows. Blockchain technology can be used to secure PDF invoices and digital signatures and makes it possible to store digital signatures in a blockchain itself instead of in …
Today PDF is the format of choice for every kind of document used in all industries, governments and by all citizens. It is trusted by everyone to reliably communicate accurate information… but how can we guarantee a document and its …
As the nature of computing has changed, bringing screens from the size of watches to interactive walls, how do documents respond to this challenge? How do end users gain some control over this experience without losing what is important about …