Duff Johnson

President of NetCentric US, Duff Johnson also serves the electronic document industry as Vice-Chair of the PDF Association and Chair of the Association's North American Chapter. Johnson serves in leadership roles in electronic document International Standards development in the following ISO and AIIM roles:

Project Co-Leader for ISO 32000 (PDF Reference), TC 171/SC 2/WG 8

Vice Chair of the US TAG for ISO 32000 (PDF Reference)

Chair of the US TAG for ISO/DIS 14289 (PDF/UA)

Member of the US TAG for ISO 19005 (PDF/A)

Member of the US TAG for ISO 24517 (PDF/E)

Duff Johnson founded Document Solutions, Inc. (DSI), the first business document service bureau for PDF files in 1996.

In 2009, he merged DSI into Appligent, Inc., and led the resulting company, Appligent Document Solutions, from January 2009 until June, 2011.

Author of dozens of articles on electronic document management subjects, Johnson is known throughout the ECM industry as a leading strategist, consultant and educator. His blog on the CommonLook website is called Logical Structures.

President - Electronic document technology, document accessibility, PDF interactive features, international standards development

Boston, USA

duff.johnson@pdfa.org

Languages: English

NetCentric Technologies

NetCentric Technologies is the developer of CommonLook technology, products, services and training. We help organizations ensure their PDF documents and forms are accessible.

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The Case for PDF/UA

Duff Johnson | May 7, 2012

Duff Johnson discusses PDF/UA, Headings and WCAG 2.0 in a recent series of articles on his Logical Structures blog. [...]

Thinking Beyond the PDF

Duff Johnson | January 20, 2011

Duff Johnson considers the Beyond the PDF workshop and suggests PDF/E as a means of developing real-world solutions for science publishing. [...]