Summary
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| Name |
Acrobat PDF/A - Portable Document Format |
| Version |
4e |
| Other names |
PDF/A-4e |
| Identifiers |
MIME:
application/pdf
PUID:
fmt/1911
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| Family |
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| Classification |
Page Description |
| Disclosure |
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| Description |
PDF/A-4 is the file format described by ISO 19005-4:2020 “Document management — Electronic document file format for long-term preservation — Part 4: Use of ISO 32000-2 (PDF/A-4)”. It is the first of the PDF-Archival format family to be based on PDF 2.0. PDF/A-4e is aimed at engineering use-cases that allows for rich media such as interactive 3D elements to be embedded. |
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| Byte order |
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| Related file formats |
Has priority over PDF 2.0 - Portable Document Format (2.0)
Has priority over Acrobat PDF/A - Portable Document Format (4)
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| Technical Environment |
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| Released |
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| Supported until |
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| Format Risk |
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| Developed by |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
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| Supported by |
None.
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| Source |
Preservica / Preservica
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| Source date |
25 Aug 2023 |
| Source description |
04/2024 (v.118)- Spelling mistake corrected in MIME Type. Submitted by Archives New Zealand and Brigham Young University.
v.121: two new signature variants (submitted by Preservica). |
| Last updated |
15 Apr 2024 |
| Note |
https://www.iso.org/standard/71832.html |
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