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PDF/A in a Nutshell

PDF/A in a Nutshell: seven years of expertise in seventeen pages

PDF Association releases “PDF/A in a Nutshell 2.0” publication [...]

PDF Association Technical Conference to feature two days of intensive education for electronic document software developers and technical product managers

The PDF Association expects a wide variety of developers to congregate in Seattle for the first-ever PDF Association Technical Conference in North America, scheduled for August 14-16 2013 and hosted by Adobe Systems at their campus on Lake Union. [...]

CeBIT 2012 EN

Live at CeBIT – PDF/A-3 with ZUGFeRD

The intensive collaboration between the Forum for Electronic Billing in Germany (Forum elektronische Rechnung Deutschland or FeRD) and the PDF Association has begun to bear fruit. Visitors to CeBIT, from the 5th to the 9th of March 2013, will be able to see this for themselves. [...]

CeBIT 2012 DE

The complete family of PDF standards at CeBIT 2013

In the world of bits and bytes, PDF standards play a vital role when discussing document formats. This will be reflected at CeBIT 2013, from the 5th to the 9th of March. In Hall 3, members of the PDF Association will discuss the PDF standards family: the basics, new developments and potential uses. [...]

PDF Association to begin a series of seminars on the PDF/UA standard

Next week, the PDF Association will begin a series of seminars, travelling to a widespread set of destinations, on the subject of the recently published ISO PDF/UA standard (UA for Universal Accessibility). The first event will be on the 22nd of October 2012 in Stuttgart, with seminars to follow in Copenhagen, Bern, Zurich, Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam. [...]

DMS EXPO: PDF Association to advise on new uses for PDF/A

This year, visitors to the DMS EXPO will once again find a comprehensive range of information about the PDF/A standard for quality-controlling and archiving electronic documents. Part 2 (PDF/A-2), published last year, is already a key component in many long-term archiving projects. Very soon, PDF/A-3 will be published by the ISO. At the DMS EXPO, PDF Association members will give a number of speeches and presentations to demonstrate what these different parts of PDF/A mean and their potential uses. They will also be available to answer questions about PDF/A at their stands around the show. [...]

NVDA goes PDF/UA! The PDF Association Steps Up to Fund Development of the World’s First PDF/UA Conforming Screen Reader

To promote awareness of PDF/UA, the forthcoming ISO Standard for accessible PDF, the PDF Association has partnered with the non-profit-organisation Access for All to solicit its members and others to join in helping the Australian non-profit NV Access enhance their popular open source NVDA screen reader to become the first assistive technology to conform to an ISO standard for accessibility. [...]

DRUPA 2012: If You Need Information about the PDF/VT Standard, the PDF Association Has Your Answers

(Berlin/Düsseldorf) As in 2008, the PDF Association will again be at DRUPA, the world’s largest print media trade show, from May 3-16 in Düsseldorf. There, [...]

Focusing on long-term archiving with PDF/A: The PDF Association at conhIT

At conhIT, the industry event in Berlin for healthcare IT, the PDF Association will advise on how to implement and use PDF standards and formats in the healthcare industry. From the 24th to the 26th of April, the PDF Association’s experts will be at stand E-113, Hall 1.2. There, they will talk to visitors and answer questions about PDF/A in particular, the ISO standard for long-term document storage. Additional points of interest for conhIT visitors will be the stands belonging to PDF Association members DMI, Optimal Systems and secrypt.
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PDF Association Continues Series of Seminars in Scandinavia

By popular demand, the PDF Association will hold two more PDF/A seminars in the Scandinavian region. One will take place on the 17th of April 2012, the first to be held in Oslo, Norway. The PDF specialists will then come to Stockholm on the 31st of May 2012. Last year over 70 participants came to the first PDF/A seminar here.
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