Benjamin O'Steen wrote:
The easiest way to create these at the moment, is to use OpenOffice 3
and choose the Save As PDF and tick the PDF/A option.
Is there some free software that can verify if a given PDF file
really is a valid PDF/A file? If I want users to upload their
documents to an
Dear CODE4LIB colleagues,
In one of my alternative incarnations, I am a zoological taxonomist.
One of the big issues for taxonomy right now is whether to accept as
nomenclaturally valid papers that are published only in electronic
form, i.e. not printed on paper by a publisher.
In a discussion
There are items/options that can be used within a given PDF that will
drastically affect how likely it is that the PDF will still be readable.
* Inclusion of 3D applets or any Adobe Acrobat specific features
I have seen PDFs with 3D chemical applets embedded somehow into the PDF
using a
In one of my alternative incarnations, I am a zoological taxonomist.
One of the big issues for taxonomy right now is whether to accept as
nomenclaturally valid papers that are published only in electronic
form, i.e. not printed on paper by a publisher.
In a discussion of this matter, a
K.G. Schneider writes:
[PDF files will not become unreadable] in the next 30-40 years.
Possibly not in the 20 years that will follow. After that, when
only 30-year and older documents are in the PDF format, the
danger will increase that this information will not be readable
any
On 06/15/2009 07:45 AM, K.G. Schneider wrote:
Setting aside the paper/electronic argument, in terms of canonical files for
documents intended for long-term preservation, PDF seems a very weak choice.
Whether or not the actual files will last 100 years (I assume that we mean
that they won't
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:37 +0200, Mike Taylor wrote:
I would appreciate any comments that anyone on this list has on the
likelihood that PDF will be unreadable in 100 years.
The problem with projections such as these are that we have very little
empiric evidence to build on. The classic
mobile
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The bet
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The bet is that PDFs are so popular that _someone_ (the archival
community if no-one else, but probably someone else
