Learn the Ins and Outs of PDFs
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PDF essentials
Murphy's Law – from capturing to archiving
Companies have to strike a balance between profitability, feasibility and meeting legal requirements. A long-term digital archive, in which all information about the company and its activities is recorded, can form part ...
PDF essentials
Document processes in the digital age
Recognizing new potential and using it successfully has to be learned – from rush jobs to digital long-term archives.
PDF essentials
Quality over quantity
PDF Tools is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Despite its relatively short history, it has been very successful so far. BIT caught up with the company’s founder Dr. Hans Bärfuss to discuss the secret to his su ...
PDF essentials
Turn those files into pixels!
Everyone seems to be talking about digitalization these days. As soon as a pixel is involved, someone is sure to utter that ever-so-popular buzzword, usually followed by numerous names of companies, digital philosophers ...
PDF essentials
Master plan for digital corporate memory
Digitalization is still bumbling along clumsily and sluggishly in some areas – while making huge strides in other places. Countless new nodes and connections form in our digital memories each day.
Whitepapers
PDF Business Processes
The PDF format has become firmly established in business processes over the past 15 years. The use of PDF can lead to significant savings in all business processes by simplifying workflow processes and reducing costs thr ...
Whitepapers
PDF & PDF/A white papers
You can find valuable knowledge about PDF and PDF/A in our white papers from the series "Understanding PDF". The fact that the white paper on PDF/A is downloaded many thousands of times per month speaks for the quality o ...
News
Smallpdf acquires leading document processing technology provider, PDF Tools
PDF standards
PDF 2.0 – next generation
It is rare for industrial products to survive for more than 20 years – especially in the IT industry. Not even the inventors of the PDF could have imagined just how successful their file format would be when they launche ...
PDF standards
PDF ISO standards
PDF standards
PDF/A processing
Detailed knowledge of PDF/A standards is necessary in order to create and accurately display PDF/A documents. Nevertheless, this knowledge alone is not sufficient in the attempt to optimally configure PDF/A-related proce ...
How to use
PDF/A for digitally-born documents – archiving MS-Office documents, emails and websites
PDF/A, an ISO standard, guarantees that documents can still be read in 10, 50 or even 100 years from now. This format contributes significantly towards avoiding a "Digital Dark Age" and helps to maintain data from the pr ...