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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 [...]
Primer: PDF/A for the Courts
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. [...]
Court Improperly Redacts PDF in Apple Case
For at least the third time this year, poor redaction practices have leaked sensitive information to the public. Apple see itself as the latest victim, this time because a California judge improperly redacted files in Apple’s copyright infringement lawsuit with Samsung. According to Atlantic Wire’s Adam Clark Estes, “U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh … attempted to redact nearly two dozen sentences or short fragments. But because of a formatting characteristic in the prior electronic version, the redacted material can be viewed by copying text from the PDF and pasting it into another document.” [...]
Digital Document Archives: Cross-Referencing and Accuracy Concerns
PDF Association member Gary Hodkinson offers a very thorough overview of digital document archiving, including storage, durability, software, file formats, conversion, benefits and more. He examines the benefits of PDF/A to law firms and its use by the U.S. Courts, but notes some overall archiving concerns as well. [...]
Tips to Make a Portable Document Format Archive Using Distiller
The use of PDF/A is on the rise by government, courts, libraries and many, many more organizations around the world. If you’d like to work on your own archive, Dino Londis provides simple, step-by-step instructions for making PDF/A files using Distiller [...]
Oracle Acquires Endeca, Jumps into Data Management
Oracle Tuesday announced it was acquiring Endeca, which builds software upon a database and search system to aid business intelligence. “The combination of Oracle and Endeca is expected to create a comprehensive technology platform to process, store, manage, search and analyze structured and unstructured information together,” Oracle said on its acquisition web site. The company is a competitor to Autonomy, which Hewlett-Packard acquired earlier this year. [...]
ARMA: News from All Over
This week’s ARMA conference saw news from many organizations on the document and information management front. According to Evan Koblentz at Law Technology News, Iron Mountain plans to use Microsoft SharePoint server in plan for records management; EMC is preparing bug fixes and SharePoint integration for the existing version 6.7 of its Documentum Records Adapter. Also,” Hewlett-Packard data architect Lou Harvey declared that 60 percent of most data in corporate systems is of no value; and the PDF Association showed its upgraded specification for making archive-specific file formats.” [...]
Botanical Group Chooses PDF for E-Publication
The International Botanical Congresses (IBC) has decided to embrace PDF. According to a post on the group’s website, “Electronic material published online in Portable Document Format (PDF) with an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) or an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) will constitute effective publication.” Changes will go into effect on 1 January 2012. Read the full article for more information. [...]