PDF should be used to preserve information for the future, says a new report from the Digital Preservation Coalition.

This report reviews PDF and the newly introduced PDF/Archive (PDF/A) format as a potential solution to the problem of long–term digital preservation. It suggests adopting PDF/A for archiving electronic documents as the standard will help preservation and retrieval in the future. It concludes that it can only be done when combined with a comprehensive records management programme and formally established records procedures.

This full report is available on the Digital Preservation Coalition's website: www.dpconline.org/graphics/reports/index.html#twr0802