(L-R) Duff Johnson, executive director of the PDF Association and Martin Bailey, UK expert on PDF committees
Two PDF Association interoperability workshops hosted by Global Graphics will provide a platform for PDF tool developers to validate their work against the ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) standard by working with vendors of other tools.
The workshops are intended to help achieve industry-wide consensus on the meaning and application of PDF technology standards by providing an environment that provides material value to every PDF developer, from creators to processors to viewers.
PDF 2.0 includes many new features and numerous enhancements to existing features, and developers can use the interop workshops to test their understanding of these new capabilities.
‘PDF 2.0 is designed to be largely backward compatible, but older processors won’t handle new features,’ explained Duff Johnson, executive director of the PDF Association and PDF 2.0’s ISO Project Leader. ‘It’s vital for PDF developers to be able to accommodate PDF 2.0 files when their customers begin to use the new features and to share these files with others.’
‘There are many cases where PDF 2.0 support will be vital to customers, and thus, developers,’ agreed Martin Bailey, CTO for Global Graphics Software and the primary UK expert on PDF committees. ‘PDF 2.0’s new page-level output intents will be silently ignored by pre-PDF 2.0 software, leading to printed colour that may not be acceptable. Although printers may initially limit their customers to older files, they will eventually prefer to remove the risk by upgrading to products that support PDF 2.0 files.’
The workshops are taking place on 2-3 May, 2017 in Cambridge, UK and 12-13 June in Boston, USA.
