An overview by John Heckman examines what PDF/A means for documents and whether it should be used for all documents without question. If you’re involved with filing documents in the US Courts, and you are unfamiliar with PDF/A, you need to read the article. [...]
The ever-increasing use of the archival version of the PDF standard brings with it many questions, both from individual users and from support teams. We can help. [...]
In today’s modern law office, PDF should be firmly entrenched and embedded in legal applications, processes and systems to enhance legal workflow, increase productivity and streamline efficiency. With the impending introduction of requirements to submit PDF/A documents to the courts, law offices are now also having to learn and implement workflows to create valid PDF/A documents. Attend this informative session to learn more about managing your PDF content, regardless of what software you currently use for creating PDFs. [...]
US Courts are beginning to make the move to PDF/A as their preferred technical standard for electronic case filing in the Case Management and Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF) system. Though no specific deadline has been set overall, each Court may determine its own deadline–and for some jurisdictions it may be soon. According to blogger Bruce Carton, “In the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, for example, the court will start posting documents in PDF/A format beginning June 1, 2011, and all court ECF filings uploaded on or after Jan. 1, 2012, must be in PDF/A format.” If the thought of such a conversion catches you unaware, a primer is available from the PIT IP Tech Blog. [...]
Topics include: PDF/A-2 Ratified, PDF/A Coming to U.S. Courts, D-Lib Magazine and PDF accessibility. In PDF, accessibility is assured by adding “tags” – markers that identify the correct order of objects and the semantics of the document. Tags strongly resemble the HTML tags on which they were modeled. But what’s the “correct order”? [...]
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