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PDF Week Fall 2023 in San Francisco covered subjects ranging from HDR to compression, color fonts, animation, accessibility and (much!) more!

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The PDF Association is perhaps DARPA’s smallest-ever prime contractor. For DARPA’s SafeDocs program, however, it’s also the biggest success story.

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PDF Week in San Francisco this October is hosting a free industry Symposium on Advancing the PDF Imaging Model! There’s still time to register!

Dr. John Warnock

The PDF industry mourns the passing of the Adobe founder and visionary whose inventions and insights led to the creation of PDF.

Screen-shot of ChatGPT hallucination due to broken pdf.

LLMs and generative artificial intelligence, as much (or more) than everything else computers can do, is subject to the iron law of GIGO (Garbage in, Garbage Out).

A watch showing the interior mechanism.

Overcoming ossification requires everyone to agree on the strategy and specific technical changes affecting all stakeholders.

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The PDF Association is proud to announce the release of “ISO/TS 32005 Document management – Portable Document Format – PDF 1.7 and 2.0 structure namespace inclusion in ISO 32000-2”. This publication aims to address and clarify the rules governing PDF structure namespaces for both PDF 1.7 and PDF 2.0.

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This update from the PDF/UA Processor LWG includes an example of its work mapping PDF’s structure types to web accessibility APIs.

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The most recent specification of PDF doesn’t limit page size… at all. That’s up to the implementation.

PDF issues on GitHub

As its members become more active in PDF Association communities we’ve taken new steps to ensure that easy access to respective public and private GitHub repositories.

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