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What's the difference between a PDF and PDF/A document?

Let’s Have A Head-2-Head : PDF Vs PDF/A

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PDF …………… The “Format”

  • Portable Document Format (PDF)
  • Widely used worldwide
  • Information is kept for a long period of time
  • Data remains usable and accessible across multiple generations of technology
  • Reliable consistent viewing and ease of printing
  • Easy navigation, fast access to nay page or view
  • Small file size
  • Focused on the needs of Individuals, low level firms, schools and colleges i.e. mainly for Private Sector

Why Standardize a Current version of PDF?

  • No doubt, PDF is powerful and flexible. May be too flexible for some applications
  • Needs higher degree of reliability
  • May want standards in the hands of a neutral-noncommercial body

PDF/A ……………. The “Standard”

  • Electronics document management file format/standard for long term preservation
  • PDF/A is just a single component of a comprehensive and complex preservation strategy
  • Focused on the needs of Government offices, libraries and corporations i.e. mainly for Public Sector

P.S. Thanks for A2A … :)

Di Otho Lohrke

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