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?
For 25 years, the platform-independent PDF (Portable Document Format) has been used and continuously refined.
PDF 2.0 heralds a new generation of PDF. And yet the printing industry is not too keen on celebrating this new platform-independent file format, despite the many promising features it has to offer.
After years of development PDF 2.0 is now ready to go. It has been 20 years since Adobe Systems released the Portable Document Format. Much has happened in the world of digital publishing since that time, whereby PDF has remain what it was always designed to be: a format for electronic documents that always faithfully reproduces these regardless of the operating system being used.