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PDF Standard Approved by ISO

RESTON, VA—The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approved the first of a series of standards for the exchange of digital data using Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF), NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies announced. The standard: ISO 15930-1:2001, Graphic technology—Prepress digital data exchange—Use of PDF—Part 1: Complete exchange using CMYK data (PDF/X-1 and PDF/X-1a) is based on an earlier standard developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited Committee for Graphic Arts Standards Technologies (CGATS).