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LOGIN REQUIRED: These synthetic files are intended for user experience and human-computer interaction (HCI) specialists to assess the behavior of their current generation of PDF applications to ensure that appropriate user-centric messages are displayed before future PDF changes are made and available to users.

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The latest ISO Extension to PDF 2.0 offers backwards-compatible integrity protection via Message Authentication Code (MAC).

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Accurately understanding the kinds of data that can be in a PDF and how it is stored can be very important. This article aims to explain the different ways by which PDF stores “files”.

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The second PDF Week event of 2024 arrives May 6-10 in Tokyo! Members can attend remotely if they cannot join us in person.

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Hugging Face.AI examines PDF. New PDF support in Android. Google reinvents a 31 year-old PDF feature. FireFox wants you to know that you can edit PDFs in its browser. It’s PDF in the Wild for April, 2024!

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A new ISO extension to PDF 2.0 adds PDF support for the Khronos Group’s glTF 3D format.

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Authoritative answers to common questions about Tagged PDF, WTPDF and PDF/UA.

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Based on WTPDF, ISO 14289-2 serves to assure institutions that the PDF Association’s requirements for creating and validating accessible PDF 2.0 files are now ISO-standardized.

PDF/A & PDF/UA

The latest veraPDF release candidate adds PDF/UA-2 support. LibreOffice creates PDF/A and PDF/UA together. A “white paper” gets PDF wrong, again. Visualizing Warichū. 

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The PDF Association has established a new Liaison Working Group (LWG) to serve as a place for forensics experts and PDF technology industry professionals to develop best practices on forensic examination of PDF files.

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