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PDF Days Europe 2025 - 5 reasons to attend.

Here’s what previous PDF Days attendees have told me about this event, and why attending is a good investment.

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Actual Reports announces ISO 27001 certification for enhanced security, the launch of Web Forms for streamlined data collection, and expanded PDF Services, demonstrating a deep commitment to product innovation and customer value.

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Experience since PDF/UA-1 was published has revealed that some rules were too prescriptive. In some situations the semantic significance of an image is due to its representation of text, and vice versa. PDF/UA-2 to the rescue.

ISO IEC JTC1/SC 34 AHG 1 Report

This recently published report from ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 34 presents an analysis of related standards, the current status and size of the CSC industry, the cultural importance of continuously scrollable comics, and various technical challenges.

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The latest JPedal release introduces new features, practical enhancements, and important bug fixes, making PDF editing, manipulation more robust for developers and users.

Generate PDFs with AI pdfAssistant.ai

pdfAssistant spotlights the powerful capability to generate entirely new PDF files from scratch using artificial intelligence. This approach transforms the process of creating PDF documents from a manual chore into an AI-driven experience.

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PDF has long relied on Flate for general-purpose data compression. Today, Brotli has emerged as a promising new approach that could significantly improve PDF compression ratios.

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If you use a word processor creating Tagged PDF is your default. | FOGRA’s summary of developments in print | The US Library of Congress is studying the PDF Association’s EA-PDF format | Office Open XML gets its first errata update in nine years. | PDFacademicBot for June 2025

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