PDF Technical Data Packages (TDP)
Find out for yourself why PDF is the best format for technical data packages.
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Archiving and Data Retention
Businesses, governments, institutions and individuals around the world need to digitally share important engineering information. Much of this information needs to be kept for substantial lengths of time; some needs to be kept permanently. This digital information needs to remain useable and accessible across multiple generations of technology.
Fortunately, PDF excels at both sharing and archiving engineering information. The international community has recognized this and developed two standards, PDF/A (ISO 19005) and PDF/E (ISO 24517) that establish guidelines for archiving PDF files independent of the tools and systems used for creating, storing or rendering the files.
Explore the links on the right to learn more about data retention and archiving using PDF.

Standards
The 3D PDF Consortium is the recognized expert in 3D PDF.
Our mission is to develop and promote open 3D standards and the products that use these standards. The 3D PDF Consortium is a category A liaison to ISO TC 171 SC 2 and we make a substantial contribution to the work of the technical committee. The Consortium serves as projectly leader for the ECMAScript for PDF (ISO 21757) and RichMedia annotations conforming to the ISO 10303:242 (STEP AP 242) specification (ISO TS 24064) documents.
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Instructional Videos
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