Dietrich von Seggern received his degree as a printing engineer, and in 1991 started his professional career as head of desktop prepress production in a reproduction house. He became involved in research projects for digital transmission of print files, and moved to the German Newspaper Marketing Organisation (ZMG). There Dietrich was responsible for a project to enable the digital transmission of newspaper ads. In 2002 he joined callas software as Director of Product Management, and subsequently introduced callas’ PDF/A related products for the archiving industry.
Today, Dietrich is Managing Director at callas software and the Vice-Chairman of the Board and ISO Liaison Officer at the PDF Association.
Dietrich von Seggern received his degree as a printing engineer, and in 1991 started his professional career as head of desktop prepress production in a reproduction house. He became involved in research projects for digital transmission of print files, and moved to the German Newspaper Marketing Organisation (ZMG). There Dietrich was responsible for a project to enable the digital transmission of newspaper ads. In 2002 he joined callas software as Director of Product Management, and subsequently introduced callas’ PDF/A related products for the archiving industry.
Today, Dietrich is Managing Director at callas software and the Vice-Chairman of the Board and ISO Liaison Officer at the PDF Association.
More and more, magazines are available on tablets or other mobile platforms. The subscriber uses the respective app to view the magazine pages, but in many cases the internal format is actually PDF. In this …
callas software will celebrate the diversity of PDF applications and solutions by organizing interesting presentations given by leading companies. Come to learn what other companies are achieving by leveraging PDF technology!
Already in 2009, the German state Brandenburg started to publish all laws digitally and uses – no surprise – PDF for that. It still is (at least) a nationwide pioneer. In this blog, I want …
PDF is one of the most widely used formats worldwide. Numerous companies use it to exchange information between business partners or in-house. PDF offers various possibilities – which is why the format is complex. Sometimes …
Dietrich von Seggern from callas software is just back from Electronic Document Conference (EDC) in Seattle. His short summary: It was a very good event and he is happy that the PDF Association decided to …
We recently heard about many prepress production problems related to SVG fonts used in the layouts. In this blogpost, you’ll read what causes these issues, how you can resolve them and what it has to …
The question of data exchange between print data creators and processors has been answered with PDF for the entire graphic arts industry … wait … there is actually one industry, the customer communication management (that …
There are numerous tools on the market, including freeware, with which users can create PDFs. But are the results of this always satisfactory? So it can happen that a certain PDF file can be opened …
In version 10, callas pdfToolbox introduced support for a wide range of DeviceLink profiles. They can be used – for free – from within the Switchboard or using a fixup in a preflight profile. David …
When working with support cases the ones that are related to Overprint in PDF are likely to surprise customers. It frequently happens that what they thought would be completely wrong (and made them send the …
Today’s world of Information Technology has opened the doors in many ways in order to integrate people with disabilities into our society. But there are a number of prerequisites that need to be met. PDF/UA …
Dietrich von Seggern explains, what are the most important updates of PDF 2.0 from the output and print point of view.
Dietrich von Seggern from callas software is writing about how system-independent archiving of project files with PDF/A-3 can be achieved and how the advantages of PDF/A-3 are presented in the form of application scenarios and …
Numerous directives and laws state that employee records must be maintained for many years after an employee leaves the company. How can companies ensure that the documents are still accessible? One possibility is to store …
In the recent blog from callas software Stephan Jaeggi, publisher of PDF-AKTUELL, looks back on how PDF has changed prepress production over the last 25 years.
callas software explains in his recent blog why system-independent e-mail archiving in PDF/A format is a secure solution.
callas software explains in his recent blog, what extent the changes to PDF 2.0 are significant for PDF/A.
Dietrich von Seggern, Managing Director at callas software, explains why there are so many different PDF based standards.
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 …
by Dietrich von Seggern 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. The …
PDF/X is a subset of PDF – see “Technical side and requirements of PDF/X” for an overview. As such, conforming with PDF/X means accepting specific requirements and restrictions to the use of the PDF format. …
PDF is the most common file format on the Web after HTML, and everyone in the Document Engineering community without exception has to deal with the format in one way or another. Just about everyone …
Dietrich von Seggern, CEO of callas software, will be hosting a presentation titled “Text and fonts in PDF” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. In this Interview he gives some background information about it.
Dietrich von Seggern, Managing Director of callas software, will be hosting a presentation titled “PDF’s ISO-standardized subsets: a tour” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. Presenter: Dietrich von Seggern received his degree as a printing …
Dietrich von Seggern, Managing Director of callas software, will be hosting a presentation titled “Text and Fonts in PDF” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. Presenter: Dietrich von Seggern received his degree as a printing …
The Portable Document Format is perhaps the most common example of a de facto standard, so much so that Wikipedia features PDF on its “de facto standards” page. From Ethernet and 802.11 to HTTP and …
Who: Dietrich von Seggern Company: callas software GmbH Position: Managing Director PDF Association: The PDF Days Europe will be held in Berlin again. Do you have any personal relationship with Berlin? Dietrich von Seggern: Yes, …
The Associated Files feature allows PDF writers to provide additional information about files related to a PDF file in a standardized and therefore machine-readable manner.
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