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 — [...]

More than a few people have been caught out by sharing documents which had sensitive information hidden in document metadata.
These slip-ups are primarily caused by a lack of understanding about document metadata — what it is, how it is created, edited, and removed — and also how it is stored within the file.
In this resource [...]

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 or [...]

The CRE8 Conference for creative, marketing and communications professionals will be held between April 30 and May 1 at Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Florida.
If you can drag yourself away from the fun and games for long enough you’ll find they’re running plenty of PDF related sessions.
The two PDF themes they’ll be focusing on [...]

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 [...]