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CONTENTS TECHNICAL CONFERENCE EUROPE 2013 EVENTS NEW MEMBERS Dear Readers, PDF is celebrating its 20th birthday this year – in some countries this is the [...]
PDF/A Competence Center Newsletter: Issue 20
Topics include the PDF/A Competence Center extending its range at CeBIT and PDF/A around the world. Technically the PDF/A standard is very much a global truth. But the way different companies, associations and governments decide to use the standard differs substantially and that is reflected in how quickly and thoroughly the ISO standard is adopted locally. In most projects around the wold people remain very focused on the archival side of the problem and miss other opportunities as a result. What are you missing? [...]
PDF/A Competence Center Newsletter: Issue 13
PDF format was first introduced in 1993 with Adobe Acrobat 1.0 from Adobe Systems. Following the standardization of PDF for special requirements like PDF/X for pre-press, PDF/A for archiving and PDF/E for engineering, Adobe invested a great effort into getting PDF format standardized for universal use. In July 2008, PDF 1.7 was officially certified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as an open standard – ISO 32000. The advantage: the open PDF standard is now manufacturer independent and offers long-term reliability. Changes and future developments to the PDF format are no longer dependent on Adobe. [...]
PDF/A Competence Center Newsletter: Issue 9
Topics include validation, challenges with creating a perfect PDF/A document and more. Also examines that a PDF/A file is a formally correct file, that however may not necessarily reflect the original. If, when a PDF/A file is created, fonts are replaced or colours are converted, then the result may well be a technically correct PDF/A file, but a change has been made with respect to the original file. This aspect is just one of many topics that will be addressed at the 3rd International PDF/A Conference in Berlin. [...]
