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Loading ...The PDF Association invites its members to attend the Technical Conference 2012, to be held March 27-28, 2012 in Basel (Switzerland).
In line with its title the Technical Conference covers technical topics around PDF and related ISO standards and technologies. With a technical audience in mind – developers, technical product managers as well as technical decision makers – the conference provides an update on the latest developments in the world of PDF, and at the same time offers a platform for discussions and networking.
As can be seen from the conference program below, recognized experts will offer their take on the state of affairs of all PDF standards – from PDF/A and PDF/VT over PDF/X, PDF/E, PDF/UA up to PDF itself. They will not only share their knowledge but also provide insight based on their own development work.
Registrations are taken on a first come first served basis. The fee for attending the conference is 100 EUR for members, and 2000 EUR for non-members. In order to register and to reserve your seat please go the the Registration page.
For those unable to attend in person we will provide remote access through a web conferencing. Remote access will be free of charge, but will only be available to members of the PDF Association. More details about attending the Technical Conference 2012 remotely will be provided to members of the PDF Association by early February 2012.
Preliminary conference program
Note: The conference program is subject to change without prior notice!
End of second conference day
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome
9:45 7 minutes with a PDF standard
7 speakers bring you up to speed in almost no time
Covers PDF, PDF/A, PDF/E, PDF/UA, PDF/VT, PDF/X, PRC, XMP
10:45 Short Break
Track A Track B
11:00 Colour
What is spectral colour data, and why should a PDF developer care?
Andreas Kraushaar, FograDigital signatures
Why is PADeS important? What role does it play for PDF and PDF/A? How to implement it correctly?
Dr. Bernd Wild, intarsys
12:45 Lunch break
13:45 Validation
Rendering validation
Dr. Hans Bärfuss, PDF ToolsPDF/VT
When is a PDF/VT file a good PDF/VT file? What to expect from PDF/VT output devices?
Dov Isaacs, Adobe
Validation
PDF validation
Leonard Rosenthol, AdobePDF/VT
Lessons learned from implementing a PDF/VT creation library
Stephan Mühlstrasser, PDFlib
15:30 Coffee break
15:45 Scanned PDF and OCR
JBIG2, JPEG2000 and MRC compression
Andreas Hirth, LuraTechPDF/VT
How to apply rule based JDF to control PDF/VT devices? A hands-on session
Mike Scrutton, Adobe
Scanned PDF and OCR
Recent trends in OCR
Michael Fuchs, Abbyy
17:30 End of first conference day
19:30 Dinner
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
9:00 PDF and beyond
Document Portability in an N-screen world - how does PDF stack up against the HTML 5 eco-system?
Bill McCoy, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)
Track A Track B
10:00 Transparency
Rendering transparency – Some surprising effects
Sebastian Holder, levigoPDF/UA
What does it feel like to depend on assistive technology?
René Jaun & Markus Riesch, Access for all
Transparency
Introduction to the Technical Page of the Altona Test Suite 2
Florian Süßl, ZipconPDF/UA
What a PDF developer needs to know to implement PDF/UA well
Duff Johnson, NetCentric
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 PDF/X
Creating and processing PDF/X-4 files – Challenges and missed opportunities
David van Driessche, FourPeesPDF/UA
How to take tagged PDF to the next level?
Matthew Hardy, Adobe
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 PDF/A
Taking advantage of Collections in PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3
Dietrich von Seggern, callas softwareFonts
Trapped in the Bermuda triangle of font encoding, glyph lookup, and text extraction?
François Fernandes, levigo
15:00 XMP
From PDF/A extension schemas to Relax NG and ISO 16684-2: How XMP schemas will finally become universally machine readable
Frank Biederich, Adobe
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 Closing Session
What will PDF 3.0 look like?
3 visionaries present 3 possible scenarios
17:00
A few things to be aware of when planning for the conference…
Travel
The conferences will last two full days. It is recommended to travel to Basel the evening before the conference, and to be prepared to leave the venue at Basel no earlier than 17:30. The train station Basel SBB can be reached within 15 minutes by foot, the airport Basel Mulhouse within 1 hour by public transport. Trains from Basel SBB to Zürich Airport take about 1:15h and run at least twice per hour. Getting from Zürich Airport train station to the check-in counters takes 10 to 15 minutes.
Accommodation
The conference will take place in the “Altstadt” (Old Town) of Basel at Barfüsserplatz 6. Here is a list of hotels in walking distance:
- http://www.hotel-basel.ch (right in the middle of the “Altstadt”)
- http://www.au-violon.com (previously a prison)
- http://www.hotelmerianbasel.ch (directly on river Rhine)
- http://krafftbasel.ch/
- http://www.hotelbasel.ch/hh/
- http://www.hoteld.ch
- http://www.steinenschanze.ch/
- http://www.hotelrochat.ch/
- http://www.radissonblu.com/hotel-basel
- http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-6510-ibis-basel-bahnhof/
Questions?
If you still have questions around the conference, please use the contact form on this website to get in touch with our conference team.
Become a member?
In case you find that the Technical Conference is of interest to you or your developer team, and especially if you have already thought about becoming a member of the PDF Association anyway – now is a good time to apply for membership: click here to find out more about our memberships benefits, and apply now!