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Now marking its 20th year in operation, the PDF Association evolved from a collaboration of five German companies focused on PDF/A (ISO 19005-1) to a global, vendor-neutral hub for PDF technology standards.
Adobe has renewed its Standards Support Endowment for 2026, marking the 8th year of this program.
PDF’s stakeholders and developers span the globe. Here, we visualize the community’s reach.
PDF Week Online brings together PDF’s technical community to advance industry projects. All members are welcome to attend!
I asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and CoPilot about PDF’s future. They agree that PDF isn’t fading – it’s becoming infrastructure.
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.
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.
Download Peter Wyatt’s Milestones in the History of PDF poster at PDF Days Europe 2025.
