After last year's update, another update was planned for summer 2016. We took this as an opportunity to review the Unicode standard in more detail. The non-profit Unicode Consortium is responsible for continuously developing and extending the Unicode standard.

The third part of our PDF/A series covers PDF/A-3, which is considered the current standard for archiving and e-invoices. This does not mean that PDF/A-1 or PDF/A-2 are no longer valid. Depending on the use case, older PDF/A formats can still be fully sufficient. PDF viewers are backward-compatible, so PDF/A-1 remains valid even though newer formats exist. Still, PDF/A-3 is currently treated as the standard format.

After attending tools 2015 in Berlin and making valuable new contacts, we returned this year to Connexpo tools in Berlin. In advance of the event, we were also able to publish a technical article in the associated expert blog toolsmag on the topic of digital work.