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A PDF icon made of silk, with Chinese text which translates to "Document Management Portable Document Format Part 2: PDF 2.0".

An initiative to translate PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2) into Chinese aims to expand digital document interoperability and advance the PDF ecosystem with developers whose first language is Chinese.

PDF/A icon and banner reading "20 years".

As we recognize the 20th anniversary of PDF/A-1 we celebrate more than a technical specification, we recognize it as a promise of reliable long-term access to our digital heritage.

Timeline of the history of PDF poster.

Download Peter Wyatt’s Milestones in the History of PDF poster at PDF Days Europe 2025.

Cover of Deutscher Druker showing the Timeline poster with with Duff Johnson standing to the side.

Milestones in the History of PDF | Chrome’s newest feature | JPEG 2000 turns 25 | Windows 11 October 2025 Update breaks PDF | ETSI third AI and Data Conference | ICC v4.4 now ISO 15076-1:2025 | OpenAI ChatGPT learns from ARIA Semantics | PDFacademicBot

Photo of a billboard including the text "PDF einscanned list keine Digitalisierung. Freie Demokraten FDP.

Thank you Berlin | PDF 2.0 support gets top billing in coverage of LibreOffice 25.8 | Now Tagged PDF and PDF/UA-2 from ConTeXt | Visual AI is not “parsing” | ETSI publishes accessibility guidance for authors of standards | “Scanning a PDF is not digitization” Huh? | Saying “no” to AI text and data mining | PDFacademicBot for September 2025

Philipp Hacker speaks at PDF Days Europe 2025

According to Board chair Raf Hens: “The event showcased what makes the PDF ecosystem unique: a standards-driven, industry-wide collaboration where vendors, implementers, researchers, and users shape the future together.”

Thanks to the sponsors of ISO standards for PDF! Logos of Adobe, Apryse, Foxit, Allyant, axes4, GrackleDocs and TargetStream Technologies.

We’re proud to celebrate the PDF Association members who help make ISO standards for PDF available at no cost!

A skyscraper with PDF pages flying around it. Text reads: "PDF Days Europe 2025".

For organizations that depend on trust, efficiency, and long-term information integrity, PDF Days Europe is a strategic investment.

A blue sign in front of train-tracks. The sign includes Chinese and English text warning about crossing the tracks safely. Text around the image reads: "Alternative text challenge. How do you encode alternative text for this image in PDF and HTML?"

Encoding multilingual content | The US Library of Congress recognizes individual PDF/A-4 conformance levels | “There was no book” | LibreOffice 25.8 brings PDF 2.0 creation to all platforms | Brotli compression benefits PDF – EPUB not so much | Business reasons to ensure PDFs are accessible: loyal customers | PDF is the format you are looking for | That Doesn’t Need to Be (Your Head on the Desk) | Color conferences | FOGRA summary of recent ISO TC 130 Meetings | The PDFacademicBot for August 2025

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