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For those who attended PDF Week London 2026 last week, we hope that you had a great time – and thank you! For those who did not… check out what you missed!

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Graph showing number of repositories mentioning "pdf" by quarter since 2020. The volume begins to rise dramatically in mid 2024, and exceeds 50,000 repos in Q1 2026.

PDF Week London 2026 is almost here! | veraPDF 1.30 released | PDF is trending on GitHub | PDF/UA-1 gets its first errata correction | Will PDF become even more important? | Firefox v150 extends PDF editing capabilities | iPRES 2026 “digital pantry” seeks new ingredients | Mustang Project releases 2.23.0 “Bonne Journées de la Facture Électronique” | New JSON definitions for PDF extensions | Accessibility: it’s all about the authoring | PDFacademicBot for April 2026

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Different PDF SDKs can produce inconsistent validation results due to hidden assumptions and simplified APIs, making careful API selection essential for accurate PDF security, forensics, and technical analysis.

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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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How do you license (or not!) AIs to mine your PDFs? In this article we clarify the use of TDMRep’s reservation of rights in XMP metadata for PDF and PDF/A.

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

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PDFs pipeline flow from CommonCrawl to FinePDFs-EDU (English subset). Flows show surviving documents at each step.

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!

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