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ISO 32000-1:2008
Scope
This International Standard specifies a digital form for representing electronic documents to enable users to
exchange and view electronic documents independent of the environment in which they were created or the
environment in which they are viewed or printed It is intended for the developer of software that creates PDF
files (conforming whters), software that reads existing PDF files and interprets their contents for display and
interaction (conforming readers) and PDF products that read and/or write PDF files for a variety of other
purposes (conforming products)
This standard does not specify lhe following
~ specific processes for converting paper or electronic documents to the PDF format:
~ specific technical design, user interface or implementation or operational details of rendering;
~ specific physical methods of storing these documents such as media and storage conditions;
~ methods for validating the conformance of PDF flies or readers;
~ required computer hardware and/or operating system.
ISO 32000-1:2008 Referenced Document
ANSI X3.4-1986 Information Systems - Coded Character Sets - 7-Bit American National Code for Information Interchange (7-Bit ASCII) (ISO/IEC 646:1991)
ISO 15076-1:2005 Image technology colour management - Architecture, profile format and data structure - Part 1: Based on ICC.1:2004-10
ISO 3166-1:2006 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes
ISO 3166-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 2: Country subdivision code
ISO 639-1:2002 Codes for the representation of names of languages - Part 1: Alpha-2 code
ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages - Part 2: Alpha-3 code
ISO/IEC 10918-1:1994 Information technology; digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images; requirements and guidelines