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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
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.
Update your products to ensure that they appear in the PDF Association’s new product showcase!
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
The new product showcase helps users explore the variety of products and services provided by PDF Association members!
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.