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Our mission

Delivering a vendor-neutral platform for developing open specifications and standards for PDF technology.

Our vision

Driving the world’s digital document format into the 21st century and beyond.


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Home of the worldwide PDF technical community

Mission statement

To provide a vendor-neutral platform for the developers, users and other stakeholders of open specifications and standards for PDF technology and digital document technologies.

Vision statement

To facilitate common understanding and interoperability between developers using PDF’s specifications and standards.


FEATURED NEWS

Illustration of negative dash phase.


“PDF Differences” GitHub repository is now public

PDF developers everywhere have a new resource; targeted test cases highlighting differences between implementations.

CONTINUE READING
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Core Communities

Chaired by Stuart Galt

PDF support for engineering applications.

Chaired by Roman Toda

Exploring pathways to expressing PDF content in HTML.

Advancing forms technology in PDF.

PDF errata, new features and ISO 32000.

Archiving PDF, including ISO 19005.

Accessible PDF, including oversight of ISO 14289.

FEATURED EVENTS

Symposium on Advancing the PDF Imaging Model, PDF Week Fall 2023, San Francisco
Symposium on Advancing the PDF Imaging Model

PDF developers and stakeholders are gathering to propose and discuss significant changes to PDF’s imaging model.

UPCOMING EVENTS

PDF Week Fall 2023
Conference ISO meeting
PDF Week Fall 2023




UPCOMING EVENTS


PDF Week Fall 2023 October 16, 2023 // USA
Conference ISO meeting
PDF Week Fall 2023