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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 ...
PDF/A-4 Overview
PDF/A-4 was published in the fall of 2020 and is therefore the latest part of the PDF/A series of standards. It is based on ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) and is both an evolution of PDF/A-3, which is based on ISO 32000-2 (PDF1.7 ...
PDF/A-3 Overview
PDF/A-3 meets an important user requirement, namely an option to embed file formats that do not comply with the PDF/A standard. Because this amendment is desirable but controversial, it remains the only change to the PDF ...
PDF/A-2 Overview
In July 2011 the ISO released the PDF/A-2 standard. in anticipation of introducing PDF/A-2, business are asking us two key questions: What are the drivers behind the PDF/A-2 standard? What is different from PDF/A-1 to PD ...

The history and origin of the format PDF/A

The 10 most important things you should know about PDF/A

All about PDF/A for long term archiving
