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The PDF Association is launching a new benefit specifically designed for Individual members.

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LibreOffice now supports PDF/UA! AI LLMs’ support for PDF is substandard, and is retarding innovation. Yet more misinformation about malware. PDFacademicBot for January, 2024.

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A major focus of the PDF Association’s work is to increase awareness and adoption of standards and best practices for accessibility.

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The PDF, ICC, NITF and video datasets used in SafeDocs’ performer hackathons and evaluations are now available for download from digitalcorpora.org.

Adobe Standards Support Endowment

Adobe’s Standards Support Endowment, now in its sixth year, facilities administration of ISO TC 171 SC 2 and sustains the continuing development of specifications and standards for PDF technology.

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In 2023, the volunteers and staff of the PDF Association were busier than ever, with new working groups, resources, and projects to meet the requests of PDF stakeholders worldwide.

October, 2018, PDF is at 68. March 2022, PDF is at 100, October 2023, PDF is at 98.

It’s difficult to find other search terms that share PDF’s continuous upwards trend. Few technologies show this resilience, especially over such a long period of time.

A complete "family tree" of PDF specifications and ISO standards.

Verizon is tricked by a fraudulent PDF, a family tree of PDF specifications, veraPDF is tops for the Open Preservation Foundation in 2023, a new PDF malware dataset from IEEE, Apple expands support for PDF, more from ChatGPT… and of course, the PDFacademicBot for December.

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The Imaging Model Technical Working Group (TWG) will now focus on the research, specification, and prototyping at the very core of the PDF imaging model, with special focus on HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering in PDF and support for new raster image formats (possibilities include AVIF and JPEG XL) and other color-related topics.

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The new VSCode extension by the PDF Association provides PDF syntax awareness to this popular editor, and is designed to support those learning PDF as a page description language.

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