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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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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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Discover our new PDF merch shop! Order branded apparel and accessories for delivery worldwide.

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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.

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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

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The PDF Association is surveying the PDF industry to fill the gap in reliable market data.

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Understanding how URLs can exist and behave in PDF/A files is critical to preservationists who need to identify, audit, and manage external references.

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PDF Days Europe 2025 introduced a new concept to our events: the poster session! Now you can download the posters yourself!

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The wait is over! The recordings of all the presentations of PDF Days Europe are online and ready for you!

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