20 years of PDF/X: From PDF/X-1a to PDF/X-6

Today’s PDF/X-6 standard was developed to support increasingly complex PDF print publishing workflows, from content creation to rendering and finishing.

Today’s PDF/X-6 standard was developed to support increasingly complex PDF print publishing workflows, from content creation to rendering and finishing.

AI (artificial intelligence) initially evokes futuristic associations for many people. One might think of self-driving cars, high-end robotics, AI-controlled traffic management or similar.

The 20th anniversary of the first ISO PDF/X standard in early 2021 is a good opportunity to take a closer look at the development of PDF/X. What did the path to today’s PDF/X standard look like, and what influenced the development of other PDF-based standards?