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All business leaders today know that a large portion of their organization’s value lies in its documents. Documents also form the basis for demonstrating proof in legal disputes. The flood of emails in businesses is now requiring archivists to confront the special demands of retaining digital documents. This challenge is too often left up to the suppliers of archiving systems alone. What should you do? [...]
PDF/A: What Have We Learned in Six Years?
Even a little knowledge can help avoid unnecessary costs. Careful planning and reserving budget for consulting services during the preliminary planning phases can help avoid higher costs during the realization phases. [...]
What’s PDF Week?
“PDF week” is an informal name for a meeting of ISO Committees that operate and develop several international standards for everyone’s favorite file format. These meetings generally happen twice a year and are the opportunity to decide the future course of standards related to PDF. Are you interested in attending the meeting? [...]
PDF/A Competence Center at ARMA Conference & Exposition
The PDF Association provided PDF/A education at ARMA’s 2011 Conference and Exposition – and picked up some good information about how records-managers see PDF/A. From making a file unalterable, to deactivating PDF/A, to its relationship with digital signatures, see what questions attendees asked and perhaps become more proactive in how you present your products. [...]
Digital Archiving Projects with PDF/A
If one wants to eliminate mountains of paper records and the associated retention costs, then the implementation of a legally binding digital archiving system cannot be avoided. But are corporations and their project leaders sufficiently prepared for this? [...]
Key Differences Between PDF and PDF/A
Examines some of the differences between PDF, the worlds’ most used format for ensuring that a document appears as it should regardless of what computer is used to create or view it, and what differentiates it from the archival version, PDF/A. The article does get one thing wrong, however, hyperlinks are, in fact, permitted in PDF/A files. [...]
PDF/A and PDF/X at the Same Time
In an archival project it may be important that the archival PDFs do comply also with PDF/X to make sure that they can be output on a high end printing device – today or in the future. In many such projects questions arise about what are the differences between the two PDF based ISO standards and the following brief overview should shed some light on this. How can compliance with PDF/A and PDF/X be achieved at the same time in a single file? [...]
PDF/A Competence Center Expands to PDF Association to Cover ALL Open International Standards for PDF!
The PDF/A Competence Center is now part of a larger organization dedicated to promoting International Standards for PDF. As the PDF Association, numerous world-leading companies and experts in PDF technology will exchange information and experiences about all PDF standards, including PDF/A, PDF/VT, PDF/UA and more. [...]
PDF/A-1 vs PDF/A-2
Since 2005, PDF/A has been the standard for document archiving in the long term. The first part, PDF/A‑1, was based on PDF version 1.4. This year, the second part, PDF/A‑2, was released, and it introduced a lot of functional extensions. This article explains the difference between PDF/A‑1 and PDF/A‑2 and answers the question, what this means to the user. [...]
PDF/VT Seminar Offered by PDF/A Competence Center
The PDF/A Competence Center is offering a seminar on PDF/VT, a new format relevant for output management. It will be conducted in German and offered the day before the DMS EXPO in Stuttgart. Wouldn’t you like to learn about PDF/VT? [...]
