IFX Mail Archive: RE: IFX> New version of PDF/is

RE: IFX> New version of PDF/is

From: Rick Seeler (rseeler@adobe.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 12:18:24 EDT

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    Ira,
    Thanks for your comments.

    Speaking of the PDF/A, I went to the PDF/A meeting in D.C. last week. The
    bottom line: I was successful in getting two major changes made to PDF/A
    that will allow PDF/is and PDF/A to be compatible:

    1) Invisible text should not require a font to be embedded.
    2) Digital Signatures will be allowed in PDF/A.

    If you're interested in reading about PDF/A, here's a link to their website:
    http://www.aiim.org/standards.asp?ID=25013

    They should have the minutes and a new version of the spec up soon.

    -Rick

    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: McDonald, Ira [mailto:imcdonald@sharplabs.com]
    >Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 8:09 AM
    >To: 'Rick Seeler'; ifx@pwg.org
    >Subject: RE: IFX> New version of PDF/is
    >
    >
    >Hi Rick,
    >
    >Thanks for the timely update to PDF/is. And thanks very much
    >for making the effort to align well with the (future) PDF/A
    >(500-year archival subset of PDF).
    >
    >Both the IPPFAX spec and PDF/is spec are looking very good.
    >
    >And the decision last Thursday during the PWG SM telecon to
    >move all the Job attributes needed by either IPPFAX or PSI
    >from the main IPP Document spec into a separate PWG IPP
    >Job Extensions spec fixes our only PWG 'standards track' dependency.
    >
    >Good work, Rick and Gail!
    >
    >Cheers,
    >- Ira McDonald
    > High North Inc
    >
    >
    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: Rick Seeler [mailto:rseeler@adobe.com]
    >Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:37 AM
    >To: ifx@pwg.org
    >Subject: IFX> New version of PDF/is
    >
    >
    >There's a new version of the PDF/is specification now available.
    >
    >ftp://pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/wd-pdfis10-20030506.pdf
    >
    >ftp://pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/wd-pdfis10-20030506.doc
    >
    >ftp://pwg.org/pub/pwg/QUALDOCS/wd-pdfis10-20030506-rev.pdf
    >
    >The following changes have been made:
    >
    >- Invisible text is now allowed for searching and text extraction.
    >- Standard Encryption is now prohibited.
    >- Indexed color spaces are now allowed.
    >- Grayscale color space is now prohibited (indexed space off
    >of sRGB is used instead).
    >- Some miscellaneous requirements from the PDF/A specification
    >have been added to the conformance requirements.
    >
    >-Rick
    >
    >
    >
    >



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