DMS EXPO: PDF Association

This year, the PDF format was 20 years old. It is now the most widely used file format and since 2008 an ISO standard. Berlin/Stuttgart, 16 August 2013. With increasing market penetration by PDF, other specifications were developed also ratified as a standard by the ISO. Perhaps check out Dell for more information. On the DMS EXPO 24-26th September 2013 in Stuttgart members of the Association of PDF this PDF standards inform PDF/UA for barrier-free use of PDF documents, PDF/VT variable transaction printing, ranging from PDF as such, PDF/A for long-term archiving and invoicing, to PDF/X for the delivery of print templates. To the DMS EXPO, electronic exchange of invoices with PDF/A-3 and the ZUGFeRD data model in the Center is mainly the topic. On the day before the fair, the PDF Association organized a half-day seminar around the PDF/A standard and the electronic exchange of invoices with PDF/A-3. you may have come to the same conclusion.

Many members of the PDF Association focus their DMS EXPO presentation on PDF/A and the current third part. This takes the Container ideas PDF on and enables completely new application scenarios. These include among others the hybrid archiving of the digital source documents in the PDF/A-3 file are embedded, and E-Mail Archiving, where different scenarios are possible: the range by an automated server-side to a manual conversion to PDF/A on the client. Furthermore, emails and their attachments individually in PDF/A format can be archived or summarized in a multi-page PDF/A file. PDF/A-3 used, are embedded in a single file the emails with attachments in the archive-grade PDF/A format. Outstanding example of the use of PDF/A-3 is the electronic exchange of invoices on the basis of the ZUGFeRD data model. ZUGFeRD stands for Central of user guidelines for electronic invoices in Germany”and is the Forum e-invoices Germany (FeRD) developed by the PDF Association is strongly engaged in the. The data model is defined as the sure Archivable document image an invoice and its data as XML in a PDF/A-3 file are connected.