Acrobat Pro DC: create PDF 2.0

[rainerf42737143]

I can't find the option to create documents as pdf 2.0.

Isn't it possible in Release DC 19.012.20040?

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

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:

• ISO publishes ISO 32000-2:2020, an update to the original PDF 2.0 specification.
  
  
• ISO publishes the PDF/X-6 (prepress/printing) and PDF/A-4 (achiving) PDF subset specifications which are both dependent on ISO 32000-2:2020 as well as publication of PDF of the PDF/VT-3 (variable data publishing) PDF specification layered on PDF/X-6.

At that time, I believe you will see PDF 2.0 support become mainstream.

[rainerf42737143]

Many thanks for your detailed respons. That ist good to know....

[Mike384990705x1l]

Hi, due to accessibility there is much talk about PDF2.0 however I still can't see support for this in current versions of Adobe products for creation of PDF. Am I missing something?  

[JR Boulay]

Nothing has changed since Oct 07, 2019 and Dov Isaacs answer.

AI integration and the “New Acrobat Experience” seem to take priority over everything else.

[Leonard_Rosenthol]

Accessibility is currently the only primary use case that we are hearing from our customers concerning the need for many of the PDF 2.0 additions, which is why we aren't creating them by default.  However, some features in Acrobat - such as the new AutoTagging service - will produce a PDF 2.0 file as it will use the newer features.

[JR Boulay]

You're forgetting those who work in print/prepress, who have been silent but expect nothing less since 2017.

[Mike384990705x1l]

Hi @Leonard_Rosenthol  You say "However, some features in Acrobat - such as the new AutoTagging service - will produce a PDF 2.0 file "   via what method. Tried this via "Automatically tag PDF" feature and it didn't change the pdf version. (Acrobat Pro 2024)

[Dov Isaacs]

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.

• ISO 32000-2:2020, an update to the original PDF 2.0 specification, has passed all committee votes and has been submitted to ISO for final editing and publication. I now expect to see publication within the next month or two at most.
  
  
• PDF/X-6 (prepress/printing), PDF/A-4 (achiving), and PDF/VT-3 (variable data publishing) PDF subset specifications have already been published by ISO at the end of November 2020. (You can purchase copies of those specifications from the ISO website!)

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!

[Goldfinger100]

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

[Leonard_Rosenthol]

@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.   

[Eyemo]

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.

[Leonard_Rosenthol]

@eyemou Acrobat DC has supported embedded media for almost 20 years now. 

Are you referring to perhaps our mobile or web clients?

[Eyemo]

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.

[JR Boulay]

"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).