PDF 2.0 Corrections

This document lists all industry-approved corrections to PDF 2.0 as defined by "ISO 32000-2:2020 Document management - Portable document format - Part 2: PDF 2.0". All issues related to PDF 2.0 are recorded in the PDF Association's GitHub pdf-issues.

Corrections are organized by the top level clauses in ISO 32000-2:2020:

Introduction
Clause 2: Normative references
Clause 3: Terms and definitions
Clause 4: Notation
Clause 7: Syntax
Clause 8: Graphics
Clause 9: Text
Clause 10: Rendering
Clause 11: Transparency
Clause 12: Interactive features
Clause 13: Multimedia features
Clause 14: Document interchange
Annex A: (informative) Operator Summary
Annex D: (normative) Character sets and encodings
Annex E: (normative) Extending PDF
Annex F: (normative) Linearized PDF
Annex H: (informative) Example PDF files
Annex L: (normative) Parent-child relationships between the standard structure elements in the standard structure namespace for PDF 2.0
Annex Q: (normative) Method for determining transparency on a page
Bibliography

The following tables have all been corrected:

Table 5 - Entries common to all stream dictionaries
Table 15 - Entries in the file trailer dictionary
Table 19 - Additional entries in a hybrid-reference file’s trailer dictionary
Table 25 - Entries common to all crypt filter dictionaries
Table 27 - Additional crypt filter dictionary entries for public-key security handlers
Table 29 - Entries in the catalog dictionary
Table 30 - Required entries in a page tree node
Table 31 - Entries in a page object
Table 32 - Entries in the name dictionary
Table 34 - Entries in a resource dictionary
Table 35 - PDF data types (informative)
Table 36 - Entries in a name tree node dictionary
Table 37 - Entries in a number tree node dictionary
Table 42 - Operators in Type 4 functions
Table 43 - Entries in a file specification dictionary
Table 44 - Additional entries in an embedded file stream dictionary
Table 47 - Entries in a collection subitem dictionary
Table 48 - Entries in an extensions dictionary
Table 50 - Operator categories
Table 52 - Device-dependent graphics state parameters
Table 56 - Graphics state operators
Table 57 - Graphics state parameter dictionaries
Table 59 - Path-painting categories
Table 66 - ~~ICC Specification versions supported by ICC based colour spaces~~ICC profile versions supported by ICCBased colour spaces
Table 74 - Additional entries specific to a Type 1 pattern stream dictionary
Table 87 - Additional entries specific to an image dictionary
Table 91 - Entries in an inline image object
Table 93 - Additional entries specific to a Type 1 form dictionary
Table 99 - Entries in an optional content configuration dictionary
Table 106 - Table 106 — Text-positioning operators
Table 109 - Entries in a Type 1 font dictionary
Table 110 - Entries in a Type 3 font dictionary
Table 111 - Type 3 font operators
Table 115 - Entries in a CIDFont dictionary
Table 119 - Entries in a Type 0 font dictionary
Table 120 - Entries common to all font descriptors
Table 132 - Entries in a Type 5 halftone dictionary
Table 145 - Additional entries specific to a transparency group attributes dictionary
Table 147 - Entries in a viewer preferences dictionary
Table 151 - Entries in an outline item dictionary
Table 164 - Entries in a transition dictionary
Table 166 - Entries common to all annotation dictionaries
Table 176 - Additional entries specific to a link annotation
Table 177 - Additional entries specific to a free text annotation
Table 202 - Additional entries specific to a go-to action
Table 205 - Entries specific to a target dictionary
Table 220 - Additional entries specific to a go-to-3D-view action
Table 224 - Entries in the interactive form dictionary
Table 226 - Entries common to all field dictionaries
Table 228 - Additional entries common to all fields containing variable text
Table 232 - Additional entry specific to a text field
Table 236 - Entries in a signature field lock dictionary
Table 237 - Entries in a signature field seed value dictionary
Table 239 - Additional entries specific to a submit-form action
Table 242 - Flag for reset-form actions
Table 255 - Entries in a signature dictionary
Table 256 - Entries in a signature reference dictionary
Table 257 - Entries in the DocMDP transform parameters dictionary
Table 259 - Entries in the FieldMDP transform parameters dictionary
Table 260 - SubFilter value algorithm support
Table 263 - Entries in a permissions dictionary
Table 269 - Additional entries in a geospatial measure dictionary
Table 273 - Entries common to all requirement dictionaries
Table 274 - ~~Entries~~Additional entries for specific types of requirements
Table 275 - Requirement types
Table 277 - Entries common to all rendition dictionaries
Table 285 - Additional entries in a media clip data dictionary
Table 311 - Entries in a 3D stream dictionary
Table 315 - Entries in a 3D view dictionary
Table 317 - Entries in a 3D background dictionary
Table 322 - Entries in a 3D cross section dictionary
Table 323 - Entries in a 3D node dictionary
Table 323a - Interpretation of 3D Node Subtype entry
Table 331 - Additional entries in a 3D measurement/markup dictionary for a 3D comment note
Table 333 - Additional entries specific to a RichMedia annotation
Table 335 - Entries in a RichMediaActivation dictionary
Table 341 - Entries in a RichMediaContent dictionary
Table 343 - Entries in a RichMediaInstance dictionary
Table 350 - Entries in a page-piece dictionary
Table 352 - Marked content operators
Table 352a - Marked content tags defined in PDF 2.0 (informative)
Table 354 - Entries in the structure tree root
Table 355 - Entries in a structure element dictionary
Table 358 - Entries in an object reference dictionary
Table 360 - Entries common to all attribute object dictionaries
Table 365 - Grouping level structure types
Table 368 - General inline level structure types
Table 371 - Table standard structure types
Table 372 - Standard structure type Caption
Table 376 - Standard structure attribute owners
Table 377 - Standard layout attributes
Table 378 - Standard layout attributes common to all standard structure types
Table 380 - Standard layout attributes specific to inline-level structure elements
Table 382 - Standard list attributes
Table 385 - Standard artifact attributes
Table 393 - Entries in a Web Capture command dictionary
Table 407 - Entries in a version 2.0 OPI dictionary
Table 409 - Entries in a DPart dictionary
Table 409a - Property list entries for associated files
Table A.1 - PDF content stream operators
Table D.3 - PDFDocEncoding character set
Table F.1 - Entries in the linearization parameter dictionary

Last modified: 1 March 2024