AIIM study on PDF usage in organizations
An AIIM study into the usage of PDF in organizations has found that 90% of organizations are already using PDF to store and archive their documents, as reported by GCN.
The introduction of PDF/A (a subset of the PDF spec, designed for long term document archiving – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A) would be one of the main contributors to this.
Nitro PDF Professional 6.0 will include the ability to create PDF files that conform to the PDF/A-1b spec.
the least you could do is include a link to a description of PDF/A. Not everyone lives and breathes pdf like y’all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A
January 22, 2009You’re right Pete — thanks for jumping in there!
January 22, 2009Gog bless.
January 24, 2009My only reservation is what happens with all the embedded fonts, if we want to use some limited space device, let say a usbdrive, is going to use a lot of space, depending of the amount of files, right?
February 9, 2009If you convert or save PDF document according to the PDF/A standard, then fonts must be embedded within the PDF. But I believe this happens already with most digitally born PDF documents, so the file sizes should not increase in size when saving them as “PDF/A” files. However, for PDF documents created from scanned documents is a slightly different story. First of all, when dealing with “raster images” (or scanned images) the PDF/A standard doesn't require fonts to be embedded because the file doesn't contain text – just images of text. This does create a size problem: images of scanned documents can be quite large. Therefore you want to make sure you use software to create PDF/A files that applies some of the newer MRC compression technologies to get the files down to a size that's manageable.
February 18, 2009Pdf simplicity is the main reason. =)
April 11, 2009It doesn't need to take up a lot of space. When embedding fonts during PDF creation, you can choose to only embed the characters that are used from that particular font. This is valid in the PDF/A spec too (that is, you can choose to subset the font rather than fully embed it).
April 11, 2009It doesn't need to take up a lot of space. When embedding fonts during PDF creation, you can choose to only embed the characters that are used from that particular font. This is valid in the PDF/A spec too (that is, you can choose to subset the font rather than fully embed it).
April 12, 2009