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No-cost access to the latest PDF standard: ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)
Although users worldwide benefit from PDF, adoption of ISO standardized PDF technology has lagged because:
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ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss
For nearly three decades; or November 1996 to be exact, PDFs have relied on Deflate—the same compression algorithm that powers your ZIP files. Meanwhile, the web moved on. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli, a compression algorithm so efficient it now powers 95% of internet traffic. Websites got faster. Downloads got…