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CeBIT 2012: PDF Association Has the Answers to Your Questions About PDF Standards and Solutions
PDF Association’s Technical Conference 2012 Creates a New Expert Forum for PDF Standards
Targeted toward developers, system integrators, technical decision-makers and product managers, the PDF Association’s first Technical Conference 2012 will take place in Basel, March 27-28, 2012. The conference is open to both PDF Association member organizations and interested non-members as well. [...]
Altona Test Suite 2.0 Technical Page 2 Released
The European Color Initiative has made Technical Page 2 available for the Altona Test Suite 2.0. According to the EIC, the test suite “offers a unique method to test components and systems in digital prepress and print workflows for their capability to process PDF/X-4.” [...]
Files That Last: PDF/A for Long-Term Archiving
“Good software for generating PDF usually includes a PDF/A option,” writes blogger Gary McGath. He takes a look at the restrictions required to comply with PDF/A and its long-term benefits. [...]
PDF/UA: Setting the Standards for PDF Accessibility
A good overview of PDF/UA for the layman has been published on the University of Illinois, Chicago website. It provides some of the history behind it and explains why PDF/UA is needed. “…when you are developing PDF files using tools, make sure the PDF tools you buy and use support PDF/UA,” writes Kevin Price. “You will no longer have to shut out the needs of people with disabilities in the development of your PDF file if you use PDF/UA accessibility standards.” [...]
Adobe EchoSign for Adobe Reader Gets Digital Signature Boost
After acquiring Web-based electronic signature company EchoSign back in July 2011, Adobe vice president of Web business services Jason Lemkin writes, “Adobe Reader users can now send PDF files to be signed from within the application as well as sign documents electronically themselves.” Lemkin adds that such signatures using Adobe EchoSign are ’100% legal’ and are protected by the Federal E-SIGN Act. [...]
New Release Issued for Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Systems has issued a new release for Acrobat X, 9.x and 8.x that provides security mitigations and feature enhancements. On its website, Adobe says the update will “safeguard your system against malicious attacks through PDF files.” [...]
PDFs and Information Rights Management
An in-depth look at the benefits of using PDFs with Information Rights Management to control document access and other features by maintaining the file on a server rather than sending the document. [...]
Amazon’s Kindle Application Gets PDF and Periodical Support
Amazon has added a PDF reader to the Kindle application for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch that will “open PDFs from within Mail or Safari on the device, or PDFs transferred via iTunes,” says Ars Technica. “The PDF reader is enhanced with support for PDF table of contents and thumbnail navigation for quickly jumping through the document.” [...]
Evaluating the Best PDF Management Applications for Healthcare Workers
More and more healthcare professionals are using tablets every day to access medical records and other information–and the most popular so far is the iPad. iMedical Apps takes a good look at PDF management applications available for the iPad (iBooks, GoodReader, PDF Expert, PDF Reader Pro, Sente, Papers, iAnnotate, Dropbox) and assesses functionality and ease of use. The review is focused primarily on ease of importing and exporting PDFs, the ability to annotate PDFs using a range of actions, to manage a medical literature library, and to read multiple file types. [...]