This free application note summarizes precisely where PDF creators should add XMP metadata to PDF 2.0 objects, and thus where PDF 2.0 processors should search for it.

ISO 32000-2:2020 is the current version of the PDF specification. It was developed by the volunteers of ISO TC 171 SC 2 WG 8.

To help implementers locate the latest information, the PDF Association maintains a page of links to current versions of documents normatively referenced from ISO 32000-2:2020.

The Associated Files feature allows PDF 2.0 writers to provide additional information related to a PDF 2.0 object in a standardized and interoperable machine-readable manner.

Black point compensation is already widely used in production printing, especially in situations where the combination of the substrate, colourants (e.g. inks) and printing process cannot achieve a very high density for blacks. Enabling BPC will often increase the perceived …

A number of documents, originally published by Adobe Systems, are normatively referenced from ISO 32000-2:2017. Adobe has made these documents freely available, and has asked the PDF Association to host them.

ISO 19005 is a series of standards known as PDF/A which defines a subset of PDF for representing electronic documents in a manner that preserves their static visual appearance over time, independent of the tools and systems used for creating, …