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PDF Association staff collect questions and industry buzz at ARMA’s 2011 Conference and Exposition. Duff Johnson, Vice-Chair of the PDF Association and Jeff Howcroft of NetCentric took careful notes on the questions and views of the attendees visiting the PDF/A Competence Center booth and have written an article summarizing their findings. [...]
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.” [...]
Status Update: Information and Communications Technologies Guidelines
Though initially expected by the end of September, ICT says its new guidelines will be placed in the rulemaking docket for approval prior to November 9. The group says “the next version will be an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; a public comment period will be provided on the ANPRM. This ANPRM will make changes in content and structure from the first ANPRM that was issued in March 2010. If the ANPRM is approved by the Board on November 9, we expect that it will be published in the Federal Register and made available on our website and Regulations.gov in early December.” [...]
Professional Association Expands to Cover All PDF Standards
The PDF/A CC’s organizers have introduced an overarching body, the PDF Association. The PDF/A CC will continue to exist beneath/within the PDF Association alongside sister CCs focused on other PDF standards, such as PDF/VT (ISO 16612) for variable data printing and PDF/UA (expected to become ISO 14289 in 2012) for accessibility. There will also be a Competence Center for PDF itself (ISO 32000). [...]
Acrobat X and Reader X: JavaScript Security Gets a Boost
JavaScript in Acrobat X and Adobe Reader has been modified to further strengthen the products resistance to malicious attacks. According to Joel Geraci, version “10.1.1 introduces changes to the JavaScript feature that stores global variables and executes user-defined scripts.” [...]
The PDF Association Is Now on FaceBook!
Like the PDF Association? Maybe should should like us on FaceBook as well! [...]
New Tax Law Pushes Invoicing to PDF/A
A new tax law went into effect 1 July 2011 that is pushing many companies into invoicing by email rather than by the postal system. To be considered legally compliant, archiving electronic invoices using PDF/A is recommended. Read the full article for more information (in German). [...]
PDF/A and Filing Legal Documents in U.S. Courts
The Federal Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system has adopted PDF/A
to file documents electronically with the courts via a web browser. It has been followed by the U.S. Courts of Appeals and scores of U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts. [...]
Apple Kills Print to PDF Application
In a surprise move by Apple Computer, ‘Print to PDF’ will no longer be available on the Apple App Store. A website post from Enrique Rodriguez at Print to PDF says, “On August 24th, we received a call from Apple Developer Relations telling us that we are not allowed to use AirPrint as a way to print documents to PDF and that for this reason the app could no longer be available on the App Store. This news came as a surprise to us given that the app had been reviewed and approved 3 times already by the Apple App Review Team. Unfortunately, we have to comply with this decision and the app will no longer be available for download.” [...]