For the past few years I have been asking my bank why I couldn’t receive bank statements electronically via email, instead of receiving paper statements through the post. The advantage of doing things the electronic way, were obvious to me, but apparently not to my bank. Then today, to my great surprise, I logged into [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]