http://www.pdfa.org/ 2010-09-09T14:33:01+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/ http://www.pdfa.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2007-09-22T19:24:30+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:improved_pdfa-1b-r&rev=1190481870 Download You can also download this article as a PDF [Improved PDF/A-1b] (6 pages, 147 KB) text/html 2007-09-22T19:21:27+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:improved_pdfa-1b&rev=1190481687 The idea behind an ‘improved’ PDF/A-1b is to enhance the conformance level by encompassing the advantages of Unicode. Unicode is obligatory only in PDF/A-1a, but that does not rule out the voluntary usage of Unicode in PDF/A-1b. Conformance level in PDF/A PDF/A-1 has two conformance levels that differ with regard to requirements and functions offered. text/html 2007-09-22T19:13:03+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:pdfa_a_look_at_the_technical-side-r&rev=1190481183 Download You can also download this article as a PDF [PDF/A – A Look at the Technical Side] (9 pages, 212 KB) text/html 2007-09-20T14:01:29+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:pdfa_a_look_at_the_technical-side&rev=1190289689 The long-term archiving format PDF/A is a relatively new standard that opens up new possibilities for many industry sectors and users with regard to enabling digital documents to be read and processed even in years to come. This document focuses on some of the technical aspects of PDF/A. text/html 2007-09-20T14:03:40+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:pdfa_a_look_at_the_technical-side_2&rev=1190289820 PDF/A: Practical questions For PDF/A, some PDF areas have to fulfill certain prerequisites so that they can be unambiguously reproduced and therefore be considered to be future-proof. Text Text is displayed using fonts. PDF/A outlines certain rules for fonts in order to enable the precise reproduction of content today and for a long time in the future. text/html 2010-08-16T20:44:46+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:pdfa_a_look_at_the_technical-side_3&rev=1281984286 Comments/annotations Some comments are allowed, but other comment types are prohibited. Comments in the form of movies, audio clips, and attachments are not permitted (additional programs are required to display these types of comment, and the programs in question may not be available in the future). In addition, any feature that was implemented after PDF 1.4 is not PDF/A-compatible. This includes Polygon, PolyLine, Caret, Screen, Watermark, and 3D. Highlight markup annotation is permitted but … text/html 2008-03-14T16:33:53+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:pdfa_and_colors-r&rev=1205508833 Download You can also download this article as a PDF [PDF/A and Colors] (11 pages, 388 KB) text/html 2008-03-14T16:30:45+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:pdfa_and_colors&rev=1205508645 “PDF/A and Colors” from Stephan Jaeggi deals with color spaces, ICC profiles and output intents. The aim of this article is to provide a compact overview on the subject of “PDF/A and colors”. More detailed information about this topic is available on the PDF/A Competence Center’s website. Especially recommended is the Technical Note “TN0002 - Color in PDF/A-1”. text/html 2007-09-22T19:42:40+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:pdfa_for_scanned_documents-r&rev=1190482960 Download You can also download this article as a PDF [PDFA for Scanned Documents.pdf] (10 pages, 224 KB) text/html 2007-09-22T20:36:23+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:pdfa_for_scanned_documents&rev=1190486183 Overview of topics: * * * * * * PDF/A documents are not only generated from digital sources - a large percentage of documents are created from scanned hard copies received by mail or from files that are being converted to digital form. In such cases, the company has no access to the original files, and the documents that need to be converted into electronic documents are merely paper copies. PDF/A is preferable to other electronic formats because it is an I… text/html 2007-09-22T20:26:24+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:pdfa_metadata-r&rev=1190485584 Download You can also download this article as a PDF [PDF/A Metadata] (12 pages, 296 KB) text/html 2007-09-22T20:31:25+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:pdfa_metadata&rev=1190485885 This article deals with the following topic areas: * * * * * What is Metadata? “Data about Data” Metadata is data about data. It describes the content, character, provisos, and other characteristics of data. The term ‘metadata’ was coined in the 1960s by Jack Myers. text/html 2007-11-07T12:57:17+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:processing_pdfa_documents-r&rev=1194436637 Download You can also download this article as a PDF [Processing PDF/A Documents] (8 pages, 560 KB) text/html 2008-03-07T11:43:56+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:processing_pdfa_documents&rev=1204886636 A thorough understanding of the PDF/A standard is a prerequisite for the creation of PDF/A-compliant documents, and also for displaying them in accordance with the standard. This knowledge alone is however insufficient for optimally configuring PDF/A-related processes. The following article describes how some typical processes can be designed, in order that components that are available on the market today can be used to achieve an optimal cost / benefit relationship. text/html 2007-11-06T12:33:06+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:validating_pdfa-r&rev=1194348786 Download You can also download this article as a PDF [Validating PDF/A] (7 pages, 450 KB) text/html 2007-11-06T12:37:30+02:00 http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=artikel:en:validating_pdfa&rev=1194349050 This article deals with validation software for PDF/A and discusses the PDF/A Competence Center’s plans for developing a test suite. Thomas Merz, author and PDF expert, is president of PDFlib GmbH. PDFlib is located in Munich and has focused on PDF development since 1997. PDFlib’s product family provides components for dynamically creating PDF, including PDF/A-1a (tagged PDF) and PDF/A-1b. PDFlib GmbH is a founding member of the PDF/A Competence Center.