Episode 532: Peter Wyatt and Duff Johnson on 30 Years of PDF : Software program Engineering Radio

Peter Wyatt, CTO at PDF Affiliation and undertaking co-leader of ISO 32000 (the core PDF customary), and Duff Johnson, CEO at PDF Affiliation and ISO Challenge co-leader and US TAG chair for each ISO 32000 and ISO 14289 (PDF/UA), focus on the 30-year historical past of the moveable doc format (PDF). SE Radio’s Gavin Henry spoke with Wyatt and Johnson about a variety of matters, together with the PDF/A Archival format, key dates in PDF historical past (together with why 2007 was such an vital yr), and PDF safety. They discover particulars corresponding to redaction of data in a PDF, object fashions, what Adobe did proper, selecting PDF variations, environment friendly paging of paperwork, SafeDocs, choosing a PDF SDK, Arlington PDF, veraPDF. They additional take into account when to make use of the PDF format, binary and XML, javascript in PDFs, PDF linters and validators, backward compatibility, how HTML and PDF complement one another, the most important PDFs on the planet, PDF as a web site, and the friends’ high 3 PDF safety suggestions.

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