ISO 32000-1
Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1.7
This International Standard specifies a digital form for representing electronic documents to enable users to exchange and view electronic documents independent of the environment in which they were created or the environment in which they are viewed or printed. It is intended for the developer of software that creates PDF files (conforming writers), software that reads existing PDF files and interprets their contents for display and interaction (conforming readers) and PDF products that read and/or write PDF files for a variety of other purposes (conforming products).
ISO 32000-1:2008 is the core specification for PDF 1.7 and remains available today. In January 2007 Adobe donated its PDF 1.7 specification to ISO. A subsequent “fast track” process was used to publish a refinement of this specification as ISO 32000-1:2008, with copyright held jointly by Adobe and ISO. Accordingly, equivalent publications are available from both ISO (at cost) and Adobe (at no cost).
See the Adobe patent release regarding ISO 32000-1:2008 and the related 2011 statement by Adobe’s Matthew Hardy.
Related Publication | Publication Date |
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PDF 1.7 – ISO 32000-1 Summary of Changes | August 1, 2008 |
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ISO 32000 is the family of ISO standards that defines the core PDF specification for both PDF 1.7 and PDF 2.0.
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