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 [...]
The Portable Document Format (PDF), created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange, officially become an ISO standard last Wednesday morning. The ISO standard (now known as ISO 32000-1:2008) is version 1.7 of the PDF specification and is available for download from ISO.ORG, for a small fee. In our opinion, this is great news [...]
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 [...]
Take a look at tag2find — it’s an interesting solution to the problem of tagging (and finding) everything on your desktop. You can download a “technical preview” for XP and Vista. At 2.3mb it’s a quick and easy download, although you will need the .NET framework.
Recently a friend asked me a simple question: what do you mean by personal document management? Since this concept is at the core of what we’re doing with Benubird, I thought I would quickly expand on it. It’s fairly straightforward, ‘personal’ refers to the fact that the focus is on the individual user (i.e. you) [...]
Looks like it’s action stations over at Adobe — my good mate Don from PDFzone reports that sources tell him that the new Acrobat.com may enable document sharing direct from their own servers. As Don says, it might be of interest to small business, but for large business — there’s always an element of distrust [...]
How to keep documents digital from day one…
Keeping on the “less-paper” theme — we’re constantly on the lookout for ways to keep paper as trees, and not churning out of printers. Which is why we were pleased to see that long-time PDF expert, Shlomo Perets of MicroType, has just posted a “How-To” article showing how to allow comments to be posted in [...]