From PostScript to PDF/X – the development of PDF standards and their influence on the printing industry What does PDF have to do with graphic arts and the printing industry? The 20th anniversary of the first ISO PDF/X standard at the beginning of 2021 can be used as an opportunity to take a closer look…
More productivity in the company through sensible document management The handling of documents is a frequently underestimated topic when work processes are optimised or the IT infrastructure within a company is revised. But there is unimagined potential to save time and money here. How can improvements be achieved in concrete terms with a well thought-out…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…