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This guide is intended to help designers, composition tool operators and software vendors avoid creating … Read more

This guide is intended to help developers or software vendors to ensure PDF files can … Read more

PDF/VCR enables variable data printing applications using PDF template-based variable content substitution and a framework … Read more

The ISO 16612 family of standards defines PDF/VT for supporting variable data and high-volume transactional … Read more

The ISO 15930 family of standards define PDF/X, which support the graphic arts and professional … Read more

PDF Assiciation publication about PDF/X. PDF/X was the first ISO standard based on PDF technology. … Read more

The PDF/VT Application Notes discuss topics that aid implementers of PDF/VT workflow tools and demonstrate the … Read more

The 4th International PDF/A conference included presentations on PDF/A and PDF/A-2, accessibility, metadata, archives and … Read more

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