Increasing digitalization has long reached customer communication. Individualized documents such as invoices, contracts, etc. are no longer only sent by post, but are also available for inspection on portals, either additionally or exclusively. The technology used is usually based on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Independent of this, the print sector in the form of, for example, printed catalogues, price lists or postal mailing campaigns, continues to form an important pillar and these instruments a

Coming back from the recent PDF Days (in my opinion the best one ever), I was thinking about the post presentation discussion to my overview on PDF based ISO standards (PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/UA...). I covered the 6 subset standards using PDF/ in their names, PDF itself and some more standards that are closely related such as "Processing Steps" or "CxF". Some of the attendees seem to have been confused by the amount of different standards. Now you can blame the presenter, but in any case I guess it i

In my opinion, the ability to attach files to PDF ranks very high in the (long) list of PDF features that have a lot of power but are not widely used. The use cases that I have in mind are not just to attach files as you would do with an email. Of course that is also possible - but the true power of this feature in PDF unfolds when standardized ways of attaching files come into play because this allows for interoperability of complex information chunks. Two examples have been developed in standa

I frequently hear people saying, "PDF is omnipresent"; then I think that it is in many cases much more: it is essential. It’s truly everywhere around us, from an agreement, an order or a different business document to a digital dossier, from a project documentation to a specification with a drawing for a part ordered by a manufacturer. All these and many more business processes could not exist in the way that they exist if PDF would not be there or significantly different from what it is. And th