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The US Library of Congress states a preference for PDF/UA conformance over PDF/A alone. [...]
PDF/UA Tools Begin Emerging
Quite an impressive number of PDF/UA tools available – just less than a half year after PDF/UA standard’s publication [...]
Fundraiser – PAC 2 with integrated PDF/UA check
Swiss «Access for all» fundraising campaign already collected almost 50% of the amount needed to develop a PDF/UA enabled version 2.0 of the free PAC PDF Accessibility Checker tool. [...]
PODi Adds Support for PDF/VT to Its Mission to Advance the Digital Printing Industry
“We have now added PDF/VT support to help print service providers who want to have an end-to-end PDF workflow that includes variable data,” says PODi President Rab Govil. [...]
PDF/VT Honored with 2011 InterTech™ Technology Award
Printing Industries of America has awarded the 2011 InterTech™ Technology Award to the ISO standard PDF/VT. The award is given to technologies that are assessed as particularly innovative and will have a sustainable impact on the printing industry. Many companies’ products – such as callas software GmbH, Berlin – already support PDF/VT and a wave of PDF/VT-product launches are expected for the next drupa in May 2012 in Düsseldorf. [...]
Google Docs Bypasses PDF to Print
Google announced that its Google Docs enhancements include pagination, increasing similarity with Microsoft Word, and applying some of Chrome’s browser features to aid printing. “Previously, to print a document, Google converted it to a PDF which could then be printed,” writes Arpana Roy. “With the new printing feature, Google allows you to print a document directly from the browser.” [...]
The Printed Page Fights Back
The printed page is fighting back; witness the announcement by Amazon that their Kindle software is adding “real page numbers”. This is, of course, the age-old problem of portability, the very problem that PDF solves so neatly. Users want to be able to reference specific content regardless of medium, and the bottom-line mechanism for referencing content remains the printable page. [...]