As Adobe Systems’ 1993-published Portable Document Format (PDF) grew in popularity, users and developers began to recognise its potential for long-term archiving.
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Join us for a cocktail reception and some information on what PDF/A can do for you. [...]
Many PDF/A Competence Center members will exhibit at the AIIM International Exposition and Conference March 21-24, 2011. Please use the opportunity to meet them in Washington. The annual PDF/A meeting is planned at March 23rd in the evening, organized by the PDF/A Competence Center. [...]
Doug Miles, Director of AIIM Market Intelligence, recently posted that PDF/A adoption was making slow but steady progress after he did an small, informal survey of 144 people. Miles asked, “Do you store a significant proportion of your records in any of the following formats (native (eg. .doc, .xls), .pdf, HTML, .tiff, .jpeg, .pdf/a)?” He found that 30 percent of respondents are now using PDF/A, which still lags significantly behind the other specified formats. But that may not be the case much longer. [...]
PDF/A Competence Center and AIIM hold their second U.S.-based PDF/A Seminar on March 26, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. [...]
The PDF/A Competence Center and AIIM announce the second U.S. based PDF/A seminar on March 26, 2010. A variety of topics including the basics of PDF/A, converting paper-based and electronic documents to PDF/A, managing PDF/A documents, metadata, and digital signatures will be addressed by experts. AIIM, the secretariat for the ISO working group responsible for the ISO standard will open the seminar with an introduction and background to the development of PDF/A. [...]
First US-based seminar focused on PDF/A will be held in Chicago. Attendees will learn about ISO 19005-1, document management and electronic document file formats for long-term preservation. Will you attend? [...]
A partial listing of partner websites, articles documents, presentations and other resources that deal with PDF/A. [...]
AIIM and the PDF/A Competence Center have announced their cooperation and will promote the worldwide use of the PDF/A standard. The primary emphasis in this regard is the worldwide use of the PDF/A standard (ISO 19005-1, Document management – Electronic file format for longterm preservation – Part 1: Use of PDF1.4 (PDF/A-1)). This is to be supported by the coordination of training courses, conferences, webinars, etc. Due to their different regional and cultural influences, both associations expect considerable synergies to result from the collaboration. Would you like to learn more about what PDF/A can do for you? [...]