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Name Acrobat PDF/A - Portable Document Format
Version 4f
Other names  
Identifiers MIME:  application/pdf
PUID:  fmt/1912
Family  
Classification Page Description
Disclosure  
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-4f allows files of any format to be embedded.
Orientation  
Byte order  
Related file formats Has priority over PDF 2.0 - Portable Document Format (2.0)
Has priority over Acrobat PDF/A - Portable Document Format (4)
Technical Environment  
Released  
Supported until  
Format Risk  
Developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated
Supported by None.
Source Preservica / Preservica
Source date 25 Aug 2023
Source description  
Last updated 25 Aug 2023
Note https://www.iso.org/standard/71832.html
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