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I can't find the option to create documents as pdf 2.0.
Isn't it possible in Release DC 19.012.20040?
No. Although PDF 2.0 features and support are being incrementally added “under the hood,” no current version of Acrobat fully supports PDF 2.0 and especially not PDF 2.0 creation.
At this particular point, there is virtually nothing in the commercial world that fully supports use of PDF 2.0-exclusive features.
This will likely change in the second half of 2020 when the following events occur:
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No. Although PDF 2.0 features and support are being incrementally added “under the hood,” no current version of Acrobat fully supports PDF 2.0 and especially not PDF 2.0 creation.
At this particular point, there is virtually nothing in the commercial world that fully supports use of PDF 2.0-exclusive features.
This will likely change in the second half of 2020 when the following events occur:
At that time, I believe you will see PDF 2.0 support become mainstream.
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Update - December 5, 2020
2020 has been a rough year for everybody, including those of us in the ISO standards development community. Nonetheless, I am thrilled to provide the following update to my posting earlier in this thread.
At this juncture, my belief is that you will see the release of applications generating PDF 2.0-exclusive features within the next 12 to 18 months, depending upon the feature complexities. (Some of the features, especially those related to per-page and/or per-object color management output intents and document parts may require very extensive re-architecting of major portions of some applications).
Stay tuned!
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Thanks Dov, i was hoping that you can give us a further information update? any news on Adobe's ability to create a 2.0 document in Acrobat DC yet?
Thx,
G
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@Goldfinger100 What use cases do you have that require PDF 2.0? We are looking to see which features of PDF 2.0 are important to our users and adopting them accordingly.
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Don't know about Goldfinger but my priorities would be to support all the embedded media types that ePUB and (Acrobat Reader) PDFs currently support -- principally video.
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@eyemou Acrobat DC has supported embedded media for almost 20 years now.
Are you referring to perhaps our mobile or web clients?
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Actually, if I recall correctly, PDFs have supported embedded video since mid-1990s (via Adobe's reader and only on PCs/Macs).Yet, if you want to distribute a packaged multimedia document to a wide spectrum of users on a variety of devices, ePUB, despite its (many) annoying drawbacks is still the only option. Would like to see that change but, if PDF 2.0 features are not more fully embraced by platforms/readers than PDF 1.x, it may remain mostly a convenient way to send around (otherwise printable) documents.
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"Acrobat DC has supported embedded media for almost 20 years now. "
Leonard_Rosenthol, yes, but 20 years ago it worked better than today.
Since the abandonment of Flash Player the multimedia support is minimalist.
We are still waiting for the possibility of playing sound or video that displays the control bars, this is a strong demand from users.
So I ask you, for the third time, whether or not Acrobat will ever be able to display the control bar when it plays a video. Because the two previous times you didn't answer me (see your Facebook).