PDF/VT relies on the already a decade in the printing industry on popular PDF/X standard and adds features that are essential in the management of output. The PDF/A competence center is devoted to the topic since end of 2010 in a purpose-built special interest group. Learn more at: Sotheby’s. The Chairman of the Working Group, Mark Lewiecki by Adobe Systems and Stewart Rogers of Crawford technologies, are a guarantee for a balanced consideration of both producing and processing PDF/VT. Even though PDF/VT is only now beginning to work a way in concrete output management projects, its importance is increasing very quickly. The PDF/A competence center will be represented among other things with his partner member of Crawford technologies by Stewart Rogers at the output-management stand of the VOI. In a half-day seminar the PDF/A competence center on the day before the DMS EXPO offers for the first time in Germany the opportunity to find a short and comprehensive about PDF/VT. The presentations and the subsequent panel discussion addressing both technical and practical aspects of the PDF/VT format and its concrete implementation and introduce synergy potentials in the with regard to archiving with PDF/A and accessibility with the 2012 next PDF/UA standard.

The participation costs 199 euro. For members of the PDF/A competence center is free of charge. The DMS EXPO is held parallel to the IT & business, trade fair for software, infrastructure & IT services. Visitors can visit both events with an admission ticket. PDF/A: PDF/A is the ISO standard 19005 for long-term archiving in PDF format. It represents a restricted version of PDF, a standardized profile for the use of PDF in long-term archiving. The standard prescribes in detail what content is allowed and which are not. Through these and other provisions, a long term readability of documents should be guaranteed regardless of which application software and on what operating system they were originally created.

The benefits of PDF/A, such as for example the ability to full-text search, make it a preferred archive format, in numerous international Authorities and businesses the TIFF format has now displaced. About the PDF/A competence center: the PDF/A competence center was established in 2006 as an International Association. Aim of the Association is the promotion of information and exchange of experience in the area of long-term archiving in accordance with ISO 19005: PDF/A. The Executive Committee is composed of senior executives of firms Appligent document solutions Inc., callas software GmbH, compart AG, Crawford Technologies Inc., intarsys consulting GmbH, LurTech Europe GmbH together. Period of less than two years competence center joined about 100 companies and various experts from more than 20 countries the PDF/A as members.