New Standard Address Long-Term Preservation of E-Documents

"The PDF/A and PDF/X committees established a very effective two-way exchange of requirements and solutions during the development of PDF/A," said Martin Bailey, senior technical consultant at Global Graphics. "Our work on the PDF/X standard, a subset of PDF for the print industry first published under ISO in 2001, helped to inform many aspects of PDF/A. This collaborative approach to development is continuing for other PDF-based standards, and will benefit all users of PDF."