What is PDF/A?

Atle Skjekkeland

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Keywords: PDF, PDF/A, Records Management, imaging

By Atle Skjekkeland, Chief Operating Officer at AIIM

July 30, 2010 - 3:56 PM

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This presentation by my colleague Betsy Fanning provides you with a good overview of PDF/A.

What is PDF/A?
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Daniel O'Leary

Submitted by Daniel O'Leary August 03, 2010 - 12:01 AM

PDF-A will outlast all of us, it an ISO standard and looks great. It's shallow, but the quality of a PDF-A document is significantly better than a scanned image, and is supported by most vendors. As a note, it also meets SEC guidelines. You can read more about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A
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Sanooj Kutty

Submitted by Sanooj Kutty August 03, 2010 - 12:23 AM

And if you add to Dan's inputs, PDF/A also comes with XMP which allows it to keep an audit of changes to it - kind of a DNA.

Also the ability to embed fonts within it, means, it can be viewed in exactly the same way as it was created. A critical element to a record.
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