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In 2023, the volunteers and staff of the PDF Association were busier than ever, with new working groups, resources, and projects to meet the requests of PDF stakeholders worldwide.

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PDF Week Online 2024 consists of 16 PDF Association Working Group meetings and 2 ISO working group meetings.

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Safeguarding confidential data has become essential. Understanding the different methods for redacting information from these documents is a critical tool in achieving that goal.

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Datalogics, Inc. announces new features for their PDF SDK, Adobe’s PDF Library, including support for PDF/A-4 conversions and updated NuGet and Maven packages.

October, 2018, PDF is at 68. March 2022, PDF is at 100, October 2023, PDF is at 98.

It’s difficult to find other search terms that share PDF’s continuous upwards trend. Few technologies show this resilience, especially over such a long period of time.

A complete "family tree" of PDF specifications and ISO standards.

Verizon is tricked by a fraudulent PDF, a family tree of PDF specifications, veraPDF is tops for the Open Preservation Foundation in 2023, a new PDF malware dataset from IEEE, Apple expands support for PDF, more from ChatGPT… and of course, the PDFacademicBot for December.

Expanded Functionality - Add to PDF

pdfRest expanded capabilities for its Add to PDF REST API Tool. Users can now seamlessly add any file type to a PDF as an attachment, ensuring all relevant information travels together and supporting regulatory compliance.

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Join this webinar to learn why PDF/X-1a was a good idea 20 years ago, but no longer today and find out about more modern standards.

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The Imaging Model Technical Working Group (TWG) will now focus on the research, specification, and prototyping at the very core of the PDF imaging model, with special focus on HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering in PDF and support for new raster image formats (possibilities include AVIF and JPEG XL) and other color-related topics.

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On small screens of mobile devices, it can be challenging to read PDF documents with many small elements such as text and images. WPS Office PDF offers a reflow reading mode that provides an excellent reading experience on mobile devices.

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