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PDFs in a time capsule
Friday, August 11th, 2006
ISO 19005-1 Document Management - Electronic document file format for long-term preservation, Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1), p. 11 states that font subsetting is permissable as long as "glyph definitions for all characters" are referenced within the file. And — as if file size is important for archival purposes — further notes that [...]
ISO 19005 - Document Management
Friday, November 11th, 2005
PDF/A for which the draft-version is included in Adobe Acrobat 7, is an ISO standard for term-preservation of PDF documents. ISO.org published ISO 19005, Document Management - Electronic document file format for long-term preservation - Part 1, Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1).
Web Reference: ISO 19005-1:2005 (2005, ISO)