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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