Apr 09 2014 9. April 2014 15. July 2019 by Bernd Engelhardt

Healthcare: PDF/H for the healthcare industry

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PDF/H was released in 2008. As indicated by the H designator, this format is designed for use in the healthcare industry and is not an ISO standard. PDF/H incorporates a number of best-practice recommendations for the healthcare sector, which were compiled by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), Adobe and an American business…

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Mar 31 2014 31. March 2014 20. May 2019 by Christian Schiller

OCR and the winds of time

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OCR as time goes by: The first machine-readable font was developed for the American government 45 years ago. Much has changed in the world of OCR technology from that time until today. 1968 was a revolutionary year – not just in the sense of political upheaval, but in the history of the computer as well….

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Mar 19 2014 19. March 2014 17. September 2015 by Christian Schiller

Page geometry in PDF documents

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Information about the geometry of a PDF document plays an enormously important role in the printing industry Unlike the PDF/A format, which does not explicitly include printing related requirements, the PDF/X standard requires that information about the page’s geometry be specified using page boxes. One of the things these boxes define is where on a…

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Mar 05 2014 5. March 2014 15. July 2019 by Bernd Engelhardt

Accessible IT: the latest legal situation

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PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) was formalized in July 2012 as the ISO 14298-1 standard and is the designation for a variety of PDF specifically designed to create accessible PDF documents. This standard provides a uniform description of the requirements that a PDF document must satisfy, and which also fulfills the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. The…

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Feb 19 2014 19. February 2014 3. March 2021 by Bernd Engelhardt

DLM – Document Lifecycle Management

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As a compliance requirement, a careful system of document lifecycle manage­ment (DLM) is of crucial importance. The complete lifecycle of a document – from its creation, to storage and archiving, all the way to disposal – needs a precise audit trail to ensure compliance with auditing requirements. For businesses, and especially today when the flood…

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Feb 14 2014 14. February 2014 15. July 2019 by Christian Schiller

Adding audio files and video files

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How to use PDF documents with audio and video as multidimensional communications tools PDF files are the ideal exchange format since they can be opened on any platform and they avoid those notorious conversion problems that can occur on devices with different operating systems. But here’s something not many people know: Adding audio and video…

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Jan 29 2014 29. January 2014 15. July 2019 by Christian Schiller

The printing process: PDF/X as the standard

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The PDF/X format defines a version of PDF that has been an important standard in the printing process for more than ten years. PDF/X is a subset of the PDF specification that satisfies the needs of the printing-technology industry and fulfills the minimum standards for ensuring that materials can be printed properly. The primary purpose…

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Jan 22 2014 22. January 2014 20. July 2022 by Christian Schiller

Security: encrypting PDF documents

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More security: PDF document encryption can be accomplished relatively easily and you can basically choose between two different types of encryption, namely using password or certificate security. An appropriate level of protection is recommended when exchanging particularly sensitive or mission-critical documents. The security offered by conventional transfer methods – such as sending by e-mail or…

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Jan 17 2014 17. January 2014 15. July 2019 by Bernd Engelhardt

The ISO 24517 standard for engineering and technical documents

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ISO 24517, also called PDF/E, is one of the newest standards governing PDF and was verified in 2007. This subset of the PDF format (the ISO 24517 standard) was designed especially for technical documents created in engineering and architecture workflows, and supports interactive media including 3D depictions. Its broad scope of application also extends to…

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Dec 21 2013 21. December 2013 27. August 2020 by Christian Schiller

ISO 16612-2: PDF/VT for personalized print

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Following three years of collaboration among industry leaders, the PDF/VT format was published as the ISO 16612-2 standard in August 2010. This version of PDF is based on the PDF imaging model and is designed specifically for the requirements of variable (V) and transactional (T) data printing workflows. The stated goal of ISO 16612-2 is…

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