Fogra “ISO News” – A series of publications that cover the latest ISO TC 130 committee and standards developments, including PDF/X, PDF/VT and XMP. [...]
The long-term archiving format PDF/A is a relatively new standard. This document discusses some of the more technical aspects of PDF/A. If you need to produce files with static content that can be visually reproduced completely precisely today and in many years time, regardless of the device or operating system used, please read more.
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Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg is the first savings bank to archive all documents in color as PDF/A in the central OSPlus archive of Finanz Informatik GmbH. Would you like to know how they did it? [...]
This article deals with color spaces, ICC profiles and output intents. If you would like to learn more about color, it provides several user examples based on Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, but there are also numerous other PDF/A tools that are not mentioned here. [...]
The PDF/A-1 requirements related to color handling may be confusing to users and developers who are not familiar with color management concepts and ICC profiles. This TechNote describes the affected objects in PDF, details the requirements of PDF/A-1 with respect to color handling, and provides recommendations for color strategies in common situations. [...]
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 ISO standard and a target format that provides a range of benefits with regard to archiving and reusing content. [...]
PDF/A is the PDF for the long-term archiving. PDF/A – adopted in late 2005 – is the first file format as an ISO standard guarantees [...]
The PDF/A-1 requirements related to color handling may be confusing to users and developers who are not familiar with color management concepts and ICC profiles. [...]
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PDF/A – A Look at the Technical Side
The long-term archiving format PDF/A is a relatively new standard. This document discusses some of the more technical aspects of PDF/A. If you need to produce files with static content that can be visually reproduced completely precisely today and in many years time, regardless of the device or operating system used, please read more.
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