One of the original co-authors of the PDF Reference offers his recollections and lessons learned.
I’m an end-user. I’ve never written any code apart from snippets of JavaScript and a few rudimentary shell-scripts. And yet I’ve served as ISO Project Leader for the PDF specification … Read more
We’ve gathered some data about the marketplace for document technologies, with particular focus on PDF. Here’s what we found. Check out the detailed programme: https://pdfa.org/pdf-days-europe-2018-schedule-of-sessions/ Presenter Duff Johnson has worked … Read more
PDF is a flexible and extensible document description language, full of features and capabilities. Different PDF viewers and processors have different strengths and weaknesses. While PDF is foremost concerned with … Read more
In his introduction to the keynote, Stephan Jaeggi will share his personal story about his relationship to PDF in the past 27 years. From the first public presentation of the … Read more
Von 10 bundesweit verteilten Standorten wird sowohl der tägliche Eingang als auch nach und nach der Bestand in die zentrale, beim ITZBund gehostete elektronische Personalakte gescannt. Der Scanvorgang erfolgt nach … Read more
Mit Bordmitteln von Microsoft Word oder LibreOffice Writer ist die Erstellung von vollständig barrierefreien PDF-Dokumente nnach PDF/UA-Standard nach wie vor noch nicht möglich und erfordert eine Nachbereitung. Aber mit entsprechenden … Read more
Tables, list and other structural elements are found in many digital articles. These elements typically allow the authors to present information in a structured manner and to communicate and summarize … Read more
Normally, scanned documents are ZERO accessible and need manual post-processing. This presentation discusses auto-tagging approaches for scans and PDF Compressor will be shown live as a sample application and the … Read more
Redacting is the removal of privileged or protected customer data before publishing or distributing. Something that has gained a lot of importance over the last years and will do so … Read more
PDF 2.0 brings a number of updates and improvements to PDF rendering. In this session, we’ll highlight changes made to the PDF 2.0 specification related to transparency processing, document rendering, … Read more
Die EU-Richtlinie zur Digitalen Barrierefreiheit schreibt ein regelmäßiges Monitoring vor: Wie ist der Stand der PDF-Barrierefreiheit auf den Internetseiten der deutschen Bundesministerien? Was hat sich im Vergleich zu den Vorjahren … Read more
While font formats have become more modern and overal fonts have become higher quality, problems with fonts and text are still a sizeable chunk of what goes wrong with PDF … Read more
