HuggingFace echoes SafeDocs with new PDF datasets | Chrome does NOT sign or annotate your PDF! | ONIX application note | After the PDF? | PDF-related ISO publications updates | PDF Week London 2026 | PDFacademicBot for January 2025
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After 30 years of Deflate, PDFs are finally upgrading. Brotli will soon enter the PDF spec, delivering 15–25% smaller files with zero quality loss, using web-proven compression.
Has it been a year already? Let’s recap developments in 2025.
Chrome’s U-turn on JPEG-XL – thanks (in part) to PDF! | PDF errata makeover | ZUGFeRD 2.4 / Factur-X 1.08 announced | Library of Congress has “many hundreds of thousands of terabytes” of PDFs! | Google Drive PDF viewer improvements | Is that a real
, or an implied paragraph? | Why precise typesetting is so important | Drafts of PDF/A-4 and EPUB/A are publicly available for comment | PDFacademicBot for December 2025
Starting In 2025, the three most significant ISO standardized subsets of PDF – PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/UA – are now managed by a single ISO subcommittee: ISO TC 171 SC to ensure harmonized technical wording and improve communication and synchronization between all working groups. The PDF Association administers the secretariat for ISO TC 171 SC 2 on behalf of ANSI.
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The third release of Techniques for Accessible PDF includes an initial set of techniques for Lists; 15 new pass techniques and 10 new failure examples.
Browsers leverage PDF in their battle for dominance | Your PDF says a lot about you | Is Big Data finally getting smarter about PDF? Hmm… | For government, accessible PDF is the law | Register-ing JPEG-XL for PDF
| Prank PDFs (can) cause hallucinations | “Spiked” PDF | JAWS misses opportunity to improve accessible PDF support | OpenPDF 3.0.0 supports PDF 2.0 | PDFacademicBot
The PDF Association is surveying the PDF industry to fill the gap in reliable market data.