Practical Tips for Adobe Acrobat:

PDF/A – a small step for mankind

Dr. Ulrich Thiele

With every new version of PDF, user wish lists have kept growing. Additional functions keep getting added on and integrated into the format to meet the requirements, especially of the advertising industry and of the pre-printing services providers. The ISO-Norm 15930 and the standard PDF/X were introduced to stem the PDF world from turning into a messy jungle. A new PDF-Standard is now available: PDF/A, which defines long-term archival using PDF.