Proposed ISO standard tailored for complex engineering documentation used in manufacturing, AEC, and geospatial; subset of Adobe PDF 1.6. Addresses primary areas of concern: Accurate and predictable document behavior Review and commenting support Including complex 3D and metadata in PDF Participants include Adobe, Bentley, Solidworks, Autodesk, Hewlett Packard, Océ, Intel, US Army Corps, NGA, UGS, […]
View PostHighlights from last week’s meetings in Salt Lake City. Determining the future trajectory of a technology – if you’re interested in the technology and in the uses to which that technology is put – can be fascinating. If your business or institution has a significant investment in electronic document technology, then you’ll probably find it useful to […]
View PostThoughts on this week’s Beyond the PDF workshop and suggests that scientists join engineers in pioneering real-world solutions for science publishing. The Beyond the PDF Workshop is currently in-session, running from January 19-21, 2011 at the University of California, San Diego. Why is the workshop entitled “Beyond the PDF”? It’s a plain, unvarnished fact that much […]
View PostPDF is one of the most common file-formats on the planet. Why is it so pervasive? Why is it PDF that serves mankind as the undisputed universal electronic equivalent of paper, and not some other technology? A large part of the answer lies in the fact that PDF is extraordinarily sophisticated; clever and robust enough to […]
View PostI recently returned from 4 days in Orlando, Florida, where committees of the International Standards Organization (ISO) met to discuss, among other things, the future and direction of the PDF format (ISO 32000) and various subset PDF standards, including PDF/A (Archive), PDF/E (Engineering) and PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility). PDF Standards set technical benchmarks for PDF technology […]
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