PDF Archiving Guide: Long-Term Storage for PDF/A
Archive PDFs so they remain readable decades from now. Covers PDF/A format, embedded fonts, color profiles, and metadata standards for compliant archiving.
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PDF Archiving: PDF/A Standard and Long-Term Storage A PDF you create today may need to be readable in 2055. That sounds like a long time, but corporate retention policies regularly require 30-year retention for contracts, intellectual property filings, and financial records. The challenge: the PDF file format has dependencies — fonts, color profiles, encryption, features — that could prevent rendering if the required software or resources become unavailable. PDF/A was created specifically to solve this. Why PDFs Fail to Render in the Future Standard PDFs are designed for current use, not long-term archiving. Several features create future rendering risks: Font Dependency A PDF that references fonts without embedding them relies on those fonts being installed on the rendering system.…
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