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PDF/A, the Glossary

PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for use in the archiving and long-term preservation of electronic documents.^[1]

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Accessibility

Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.

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Adobe Inc.

Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.

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An advanced electronic signature (AES or AdES) is an electronic signature that has met the requirements set forth under EU Regulation No 910/2014 (eIDAS-regulation) on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the European Single Market.

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Annotation

An annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information.

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Color management

Color management is the process of ensuring consistent and accurate colors across various devices, such as monitors, printers, and cameras.

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Computer accessibility

Computer accessibility refers to the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability type or severity of impairment.

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Digital dark age

The digital dark age is a lack of historical information in the digital age as a direct result of outdated file formats, software, or hardware that becomes corrupt, scarce, or inaccessible as technologies evolve and data decays. PDF/A and digital dark age are digital preservation.

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Digital preservation

In library and archival science, digital preservation is a formal process to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable in the long term.

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Electronic document

An electronic document is a document that can be sent in non-physical means, such as telex, email, and the internet.

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File viewer

A file viewer is a utility application software on operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, or Windows.

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Font

In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface.

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Font embedding

Font embedding is the inclusion of font files inside an electronic document for display across different platforms.

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Glyph

A glyph is any kind of purposeful mark.

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Helvetica

Helvetica, also known by its original name Neue Haas Grotesk, is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann.

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International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.

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JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS.

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JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system.

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Lempel–Ziv–Welch

Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) is a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch.

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LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF).

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NPES

NPES, The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, is a trade association based in the United States representing more than four hundred companies that manufacture and distribute equipment, systems, software, and supplies used in printing, publishing, and converting.

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OpenType

OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts.

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Optical character recognition

Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example: from a television broadcast).

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PAdES

PAdES (PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures) is a set of restrictions and extensions to PDF and ISO 32000-1 making it suitable for advanced electronic signatures (AdES).

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. PDF/A and PDF are ISO standards and page description languages.

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PDF Association

The PDF Association promotes the adoption and use of International Standards related to PDF technology by assisting enterprise content management (ECM), document management system (DMS) and advanced PDF users with the implementation of PDF technology on an organizational level. PDF/A and PDF Association are computer file formats.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

Also known as ISO 19005, PDF-A, PDF/A mode, PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2, PDF/A-3, PDF/A-4.

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