34 posts tagged with "PDF/A"

Why an ISO standard from 2005 is still future-proof​

Analogue archiving media such as microfilm and paper have long been a thing of the past. Even the image format TIFF, the first digital format, was replaced in the 1990s by a more efficient one, namely the Portable Document Format (PDF) published by Adobe Systems. Based on this, the archive format standard PDF/A was developed, which still plays a decisive role today for long-term archiving as required by law.

In this specific case, a customer required PDF/A documents created with webPDF to be transferred automatically into an archiving system and enriched with metadata.

In 2017, the PDF 2.0 standard was published. In 2020, it was updated with corrections in a second edition. This is ISO 32000-2:2020 as an update to PDF 2.0. What do you need to know about these new PDF standards, and what changes do they introduce for the subset standards?