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November 10, 2016
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PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2) delivery in 2017

  • November 10, 2016
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I have a question about PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2) delivery in 2017.

Where can I get files examples for upload to see, if the new delivery is still compatible with the PDF Preview within my application?

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

At this point, ISO 32000-2 has passed its DIS4 vote, but has yet to be submitted to ISO for publication. This process could take the better part of one year based on our previous experiences with ISO with ISO PDF as well as PDF subsets such as PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/VT.

You shouldn't expect any commercial generation of PDF 2.0 for a while yet and as such, current PDF clients are somewhat “safe” for the time being.

As far as we know, there aren't anything other than examples of fragments of PDF 2.0 which can be found in the DIS documents.

          - Dov

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Legend
November 10, 2016

At this point, ISO 32000-2 has passed its DIS4 vote, but has yet to be submitted to ISO for publication. This process could take the better part of one year based on our previous experiences with ISO with ISO PDF as well as PDF subsets such as PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/VT.

You shouldn't expect any commercial generation of PDF 2.0 for a while yet and as such, current PDF clients are somewhat “safe” for the time being.

As far as we know, there aren't anything other than examples of fragments of PDF 2.0 which can be found in the DIS documents.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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Anonymous
November 13, 2016

Thank you very much Dov!

Do you have the roadmap or delivery estimated date?

Thanks again

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
September 19, 2017

Hi Dov

Any chances to have the HEIF format supported in PDF 2.0?

https://iso.500px.com/heif-first-nail-jpegs-coffin/


Not anytime soon. These things move slowly especially since apparently (per the article you pointed us to), HEIF is heavily encumbered by existing patents. Typically, such encumbrances are great for impeding wide acceptance since to be in PDF, those intellectual property issues much be resolved first. And of course, one must look at how well such encoding really works out.

Anyone remember how JPEG2000 was going to the savior of image compression … and what a bust it really has been (although not for IP reasons, but primarily due to processing overhead for encoding and decoding).

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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