A recent report by market intelligence company IDC revealed that 60% of responding Australian businesses produced more paper print-outs today than they had five years ago. This figure makes the eager projections of the early noughties look rather optimistic. The problem? According to the report, poor planning and implementation of electronic document management systems underpin [...]

PDF/A is a subset of PDF designed for long-term archiving. In order to make it suitable for long-term archiving certain PDF features, such as JavaScript support, embedding of audio/video content and encryption, were removed. In addition, use of standards-based metadata is mandated and all fonts must be embedded in the document.
The goal behind PDF/A is [...]

I was chatting with a good friend of mine, Don Fluckinger, about storage and retrieval of his various pieces of content all over the web and throughout print publications.
First up, a quick intro to Don: If you’re a member of the PDF world, you’d have definitely encountered his writings at PDFzone, and probably caught up [...]

Last year the inaugural PDF/A Conference was held in Stuttgart, Germany, and a healthy crowd of over 200 were in attendance. This year the conference has been moved to Amsterdam and will run from the 10th till the 11th of April.
Speakers include Leonard Rosenthol (Technical Standards Evangelist) and Dr. Jim King (PDF Architect) from Adobe [...]