Well, if it's like zip, tar, etc. then why not *use* zip, tar,
etc. and pack the PDF/As inside?
It's a *wheel*, guys. We already knew how to do this.
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PDF/A-3 makes only a single, fairly monumental change. In the PDF/A-2
specification users were allowed to embed files, but only PDF/A files.
PDF/A-3 now allows the embedding of any arbitrary file format, including
XML, CSV, CAD, images and any others.
At first glance this sounds like a gigantic
On 2 January 2014 13:59, Hilton Gibson hilton.gib...@gmail.com wrote:
PDF/A-3 makes only a single, fairly monumental change. In the PDF/A-2
specification users were allowed to embed files, but only PDF/A files.
PDF/A-3 now allows the embedding of any arbitrary file format, including
XML, CSV,
Ok. I have done my awareness thing. Good luck for future researchers.
Cheers
hg
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Thanks a lot to the down-under whistle-blower!
This issue reminds me the TIFF format, seen decades ago as a good
preservation format, also an envelope for a myriad of other formats.
It ends up that they became badly supported by new Microsoft OSs and
finally we had to convert all of them to
