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Glossary of PDF acronyms and terms with lay-person definitions.

ISO standards for PDF

The definitive list of all ISO standards for PDF technology.

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Current status of the ISO standards development work in the program of work for ISO … Read more

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Resolved errata against industry and ISO PDF-related publications.

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ISO provides public access to various clauses of ISO publications including the Normative References clause … Read more

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The PDF Association’s repositories in GitHub. Public repositories welcome contributions and comments from the public. … Read more

This Application Note describes means of incorporating custom metadata structures into PDF files, and includes … Read more

This Application Note provides acceptable uses of HDR images and color data when using PDF/A … Read more

This document provides guidance and recommendations for application developers who want to create PDF files … Read more

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Free XMP Extension Schema templates that support compliance with ISO standards and specifications utilizing XMP.

Based on PDF/A, the EA-PDF specification defines a specification for a vendor- and platform- neutral … Read more

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Commercial and free PDF creation, viewing or validation software that exposes the relationship between a … Read more

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These Techniques provide atomic example files and test procedures in a vendor-neutral manner, allowing PDF … Read more

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PDF cheat sheets are quick-reference tools to help developers work more efficiently while ensuring that … Read more

The primary purpose of ISO 16684 is to define a metadata format and XML serialization … Read more

Private data is everywhere is in almost every broadly-adopted file format. This Application Note answers … Read more

This document broadens the concept of XMP specified in ISO 16684-1 so that XMP can … Read more

This document defines how the XMP data model can be serialized to JSON-LD.

This part of ISO 16684 specifies the use of RELAX NG to describe serialized XMP … Read more

This document defines two essential components of XMP metadata – data model and serialization.

This document provides an overview and technical introduction to the Print Product Metadata (PPM) ISO … Read more

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