May 5, 2020 02:18
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English term

pdf a format

English Tech/Engineering IT (Information Technology)
What a grammar construction is this lexeme?
The context:
The statement in pdf a format with your real signature!
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. And a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notification is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

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Change log

May 5, 2020 04:34: Shera Lyn Parpia changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Tech/Engineering"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (2): Tony M, Yvonne Gallagher

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Discussion

Becca Resnik May 12, 2020:
about signatures Oh, and in regards to the signature itself: PDFs *can* have all kinds of encryption, verification links, etc. related to someone's signature. By requiring PDF/A, they're requiring a file format that doesn't have all those extras, thereby ensuring the signature will always appear regardless of future encryption methods, verification servers, etc.
Becca Resnik May 12, 2020:
@ Alexander I just realized this question is still open, and maybe I can help with the "long-term archiving" issue. There's a little snippet in the link below about "standard formats to extend the life cycle of the document over time." The idea is that if you use a non-standard format, so many other changes are made over time that the document may not be displayed in its original format by future software versions or operating system updates (e.g. a font pack that is revised or disappears). An archived format embeds all that information instead of linking it. It will also embed other file types, like audio files, that would be managed by the OS. However, if you use a standardized (by ISO or another organization) format, in this case PDF/A, it's likely to be able to be read by many programs and OSs for a long time, as the standards are more "basic/clean," and companies that want to be ISO-compliant will follow them. It's like books that have appendices in them, in which case no matter what changes in the world, you can always see exactly what they were referencing.

https://www.edicomgroup.com/solutions/long-term-electronic-a...
Daryo May 5, 2020:
lost in re-re-recopying The statement in pdf a format with your real signature!
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The statement in PDF/A format with your real signature!

Obviously, as a PDF/A "document" is just an electronic file (a collection of 1s and 0s in some storage medium) the "real signature" will be a scan/picture of your real signature that will have be included in the PDF/A "document".

Responses

+10
2 mins
Selected

ISO file format PDF/A

It's a specific type of .pdf file format, defined by ISO. PDFs are what people typically open in the program Adobe (although there are other pdf readers).
Peer comment(s):

agree David Hollywood : that's it...PDF/A format
16 mins
agree philgoddard : The first Google hit gives the answer.
4 hrs
agree Tony M
4 hrs
agree adel almergawy
5 hrs
agree Youssef Chabat
6 hrs
agree EirTranslations
6 hrs
agree James A. Walsh
9 hrs
agree Yvonne Gallagher : of course!
11 hrs
agree Alexios Theodorov (X)
16 hrs
agree Daryo : Adobe may well be the initial creator of the PDF format, but their Acrobat Reader has become a morbidly obese bloatware - no one sensible would use it.
19 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."

Reference comments

20 mins
Reference:

pdf

Electronic document file format for long-term preservation -- Part 2: Use of ISO 32000-1 (PDF/A)».

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Note added at 22 mins (2020-05-05 02:40:05 GMT)
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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. PDF/A differs from PDF by prohibiting features unsuitable for long-term archiving, such as font linking (as opposed to font embedding) and encryption.
Note from asker:
David, thank you. But, what does it mean 'long-term' archiving in the context? I presume ALL the PC file formats theoretically can be stored as long as you need to.
Peer comments on this reference comment:

agree Tony M
4 hrs
agree Daryo
19 hrs
agree k-mira
1 day 18 hrs
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