Video recordings and slides oft the PDF Day Europe 2017 now available!
PDF Days Europe 2017 hits the target!
With more than 200 participants, this year’s PDF Days Europe was the largest to-date.
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The Portable Document Format (commonly known as “PDF”) is a file format developed in the early 1990s as a way to share computer documents, including text formatting and inline images. PDF technology was designed to allow for presentation of documents independent of the application software, operating system and hardware used to create them.
PDF files encapsulate a complete description of a fixed-layout document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it. PDF files may also include a wide variety of other content, from hyperlinks to metadata to logical structure to JavaScript and attached files, that allow the format to meet a wide variety of functional and workflow needs for electronic documents.
From 1993 until 2007 the PDF specification (known as the “PDF Reference”) was published by Adobe Systems, and during that time, was released in eight editions, from 1.0 to 1.7. To promote widespread adoption, Adobe System made these documents freely available and their use royalty-free, from the outset.
To download any of the pre-ISO editions of the PDF Reference, visit Adobe’s PDF Reference Archive.
In 2008 ISO published the first ISO edition of the PDF Reference as ISO 32000. Technically identical to PDF 1.7, the first ISO specification for PDF was named “ISO 32000-1”. Under a special one-time agreement between Adobe and ISO, an “Adobe version” of ISO 32000-1 was made available as a free download from Adobe’s website. Purchased directly from ISO, ISO 32000-1 costs 198 Swiss Francs.
In July, 2017, ISO published ISO 32000-2, the long-awaited PDF 2.0. In addition to numerous clarifications and corrections, this document enhances and extends the PDF format in a wide variety of new areas.
At the present time, PDF 2.0 is available from ISO and ISO member body organizations at a variety of costs. Some examples:
Drees & Sommer, based in Stuttgart, is an international consulting firm in the construction and real estate sector. With 41 offices worldwide, the company has used Foxit Software’s PhantomPDF since 2016 to create and edit PDF documents. Since then, it has benefited from low license and maintenance fees for its 2,150 users who also praise the software’s intuitive, Microsoft Office-style user interface.
PDF Tools is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Despite its relatively short history, it has been very successful so far. Discover our philosophy in the interview with Dr. Hans Bärfuss.
Creation of PDF/UA and PDF/A-3a documents.
Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF software, announces version 12 of PDF Studio, their powerful, easy to use PDF editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. PDF Studio 12 adds many new exciting features including PDF Imposition, Scanning Configuration, Excel to PDF Conversion, Page Resize, and 4K Display Support.
Solothurn’s hospitals needed a solution for the proper archiving of electronic case files in their system.
The PDF 2.0 interop workshops included many vendors with products for creating, editing and processing PDF files. They came together in Boston, Massachusetts for a couple of days to test their own software against 3rd party files.
2017 marks a record number of attendees / Experts shared fully-grounded wisdom on PDF standards across the two-day event Berlin. With over 200 attendees, this year’s PDF Days Europe in Berlin was a significant success with the largest attendance of any …
About 35 informative sessions across a wide range of topics, including the next-generation PDF project. Within the video frames you can use the red “play” button to get a short impression of the talk or can enjoy the high resolution version by clicking …
With more than 200 participants, this year’s PDF Days Europe was the largest to-date. Early feedback from attendees makes clear that it was also a great success.
PDF for printing – The ISO standard PDF/X was the first ISO standard based on PDF technology. A subset of the PDF specification, PDF/X was designed to constrain PDF files in order to cater to specific use-cases in the print industry. Content Introduc …
More than 150 attendees have registered for the PDF Days Europe 2017 so far!
by Dietrich von Seggern Specialized ISO standards based on the Portable Document Format are available for a wide range of purposes. PDF Originally developed by Adobe Systems in 1993, PDF 1.7 became an open standard in 2008 as ISO 32000-1. PDF 2.0 will …
PDF Association Board Member Hans-Joachim Hübner and Managing Director Thomas Zellmann presented the keynote speech PDF / A-3 as preservation format.
You missed the PDF Days Europe 2015? Never mind! Overview of the video recordings of the PDF Days Europe 2015
A single session was dedicated at each PDF Day to giving each sponsor no more than 4 minutes to introduce themselves and their organizations, and talk about what makes them different.
21 videos covering the sessions at PDF Day in December, 2014. Subjects range from accessibility to NARA’s transfer guidance, collaboration, and more.
On June 18 David van Driessche held an English webinar focusing on how to use pdfToolbox Server in more advanced ways – knowing how pdfToolbox Server works with hot folders is a prerequisite. It might be a good idea to watch these former webinars about …
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