PDF Association membership

The Berlin-based PDF Association welcomes SoftVision Development as a new member from April 2022. As a software developer in the PDF environment, we are very much looking forward to the synergies and cooperation with the Association and its members. With our product webPDF, we offer a professional PDF solution for companies and thus deal with…




webPDF not affected by vulnerability CVE-2022-22965

Latest security advisory for webPDF customers: webPDF is not affected by the security vulnerability CVE-2022-22965, which has become known as “spring4shell“. webPDF does not use the Spring framework in any version and is therefore not affected by the vulnerability. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact our support at any…


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Universal accessibility – more than inclusion

Many further questions arise with regard to the topic of accessibility and digitization. At the beginning of the year, the PDF Association published an interesting approach to this on their website pdfa.org. It dealt with the topic of accessible communication. This is a not insignificant topic, also with regard to website design and document formats….




Increased PDF use due to pandemic

Digital work processes have been more in demand than ever due to the Covid pandemic and have also significantly boosted the use of the PDF format and PDF software. Due to the challenges posed by the Corona pandemic, most companies sought digital solutions to switch to paperless business processes, as they needed to quickly switch…




Efficient administration with electronic signatures

Due to the pandemic, the need for digital services, home offices and digital communication with citizens in the administration has increased since 2020. However, signatures are required for most digital work processes, especially at public authorities and in administration. This means: Inevitably, one has to deal with the necessity of electronic signatures. An electronic signature…




Summary of the online event PDF Days 2021

Last year’s PDF Days once again offered a lot of input and news on the topic of PDF developments. In addition to the PDF ISO standards, the focus was as always on presenting the variety of PDF applications and newly developed solutions. Due to the Covid pandemic, the use of digital technologies has become more…




PDF/X-6 ISO norm for digital print

With the publication of PDF 2.0 in 2017 (first revision in 2020), new parts of the standard were also made available. These concern the formats PDF/A, PDF/VT, PDF/R and PDF/X. They were improved and adapted. Since PDF 2020, PDF/X-6 is now recommended as the successor to PDF/X-4 for professional printing. PDF/X-5 was based on PDF…




Security and feature update for webPDF 8

A new update for webPDF 8 is currently available with the revision number 2393. With this security and feature update, important core components such as OpenJDK (11.0.14 GA) and Tomcat (9.0.58) have also been updated. This allows you to upgrade all used libraries and dependencies to the latest versions. We strongly recommend our security updates…




PDF technology: transparency in the PDF format

From the very beginning, PDF technology has lived on constant further developments and adaptations, which then also affect media designers, designers or the printing industry. This is a factor that should not be underestimated, especially nowadays. One example of such developments is the work with transparencies: Today we are used to being able to create…




Digital administration: e-files at public authorities

In addition to the conversion to electronic patient files in the health care system in Germany and the use of e-billing by public authorities, a law came into force in 2013 that further advances electronic administration at municipalities and public authorities. This is the so-called E-Government Act. In this context, some principles of electronic record…