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Support PDF standards development; buy your ISO standards from the PDF Association! Members even get a discount!

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PDF Association CTO Peter Wyatt explains the transparent imaging model in PDF and recounts its significance since Adobe introduced this technology in 2001.

A swirl of email.

Almost every email client can save email messages as PDF files, but none do so in a manner that retains email structures or metadata proving message authenticity. The EA-PDF specification development effort will explore a better way.

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The CEO of the PDF Association reflects on the steady expansion of the organization’s mission and the future.

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On World Standards Day 2021 the PDF Association celebrates PDF’s connection to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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callas software’s Dietrich von Seggern describes what “owned by ISO” really means, and why that matters, in celebration of World Standards Day.

PDF Days Online 2021

For developers and heavy users of PDF technology the Technical Days and Solution Days sessions that make up PDF Days Online 2021 are a great place to find inspiration and expertise.

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We have enhanced the PDF Association’s Feature Support pages to be driven by members’ product and services showcase listings on pdfa.org.

Chart depicting the popularity of digital document formats online.

According to CommonCrawl’s detected MIME type PDF is the 3rd most popular file-format on the web (behind HTML and XHTML); more popular than JPEG, PNG or GIF files.

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The PDF Association welcomes new members as we absorb the 3D PDF Consortium’s membership and functions. With two new working groups led by Boeing’s Stuart Galt we will directly connect development of 3D PDF technologies into the PDF Association’s global network of vendors and other stakeholders.

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