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The PDF Association supports interoperability by sharing extensions and declarations via GitHub, inviting members to contribute standardized, machine-readable data.

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Gain insights into the PDF marketplace via this exclusive report.

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German government standardizes on PDF/UA | ISO/IEC committee starts work on a vocabulary for authenticity | Chrome adds ink (not “annotations”) to PDF pages | The challenge(s) PDF poses for AI | LaTeX leader and advocate of math in Tagged PDF honored | PDF Differences: “PDF versions” test files now public | ICC publishes information on small footprint color profiles | GWG publishes “how to” for print-ready PDFs from Canva | Typst supports PDF 2.0 and PDF/A-4 | It’s bonkers! | PDFacademicBot for March 2026

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Update your products to ensure that they appear in the PDF Association’s new product showcase!

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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 2026

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The new product showcase helps users explore the variety of products and services provided by PDF Association members!

Brotli Compression in iText – Everything you need to know about Brotli support in iText

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.

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Has it been a year already? Let’s recap developments in 2025.

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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

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