COMMUNITY

Industry Working Groups
PDF Association Working Groups reflect the diverse range of subjects and constituencies we serve. Community activities include:
  • Promoting exchange between developers who focus in various subdomains
  • Consensus-based development of industry specifications, standards, best practices, test suites and other aides to interoperability
  • Development of informational resources for PDF developers and users
  • Research and development of new PDF extensions and use cases
  • Oversight and policies for industry-accepted validation software such as veraPDF
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Technical Working Groups

PDF Association members-only


PDF TWG

PDF errata, new features and ISO 32000.

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PDF/A TWG

Archiving PDF, including ISO 19005.

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PDF/UA TWG

Accessible PDF, including oversight of ISO 14289.

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PDF/VT TWG

Personalized and variable data PDF, including ISO 16612.

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PDF/R TWG

Raster PDF from imaging systems, including ISO 23504.

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PDF Digital Signatures TWG

Digital signing and validation.

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PDF Forms TWG

Advancing forms technology in PDF.

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PDF Reuse TWG

Reusing PDF content, including “well-tagged” PDF.

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Rich Media TWG

Video, audio and interactive media in PDF.

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Deriving HTML from PDF TWG

Exploring pathways to expressing PDF content in HTML.

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3D PDF TWG

PDF support for engineering applications.

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Imaging Model TWG

Defining the future of the PDF imaging model.

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Liasion Working Groups

PDF Association members and non-member subject matter experts


Aligning PDF/A and PDF/X LWG

Synchronizing PDF/A and PDF/X.

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DocRM LWG

Developing common understandings and a standard reference model for the long-term preservation of text documents.

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PDF/UA Processor LWG

Formalizing common understandings on processing tagged PDF.

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EA-PDF LWG

Archiving email using PDF.

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3D PDF User LWG

User requirements for PDF in engineering applications.

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LaTeX Project LWG

Supporting generation of tagged PDF directly from LaTeX.

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Print Product Metadata LWG

Supporting print industry awareness and adoption of ISO 21812.

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PDF Accessibility LWG

Developing techniques and examples for accessible PDF.

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Marketing Working Groups

PDF Association members


PDF Technology MWG

Promoting greater awareness of PDF technology and its capabilities.

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US (ANSI) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for ISO TC 171 SC 2

Available to US-based subject matter experts registered with ISO


US TAG

Technical Advisory Group establishing the US position for TC 171 SC 2.

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TC171 SC2 US WG5 Archival

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 5.

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TC171 SC2 US WG7 Engineering

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 7.

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TC171 SC2 US WG8 PDF

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 8.

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TC171 SC2 US WG9 Accessibility

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 9.

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TC171 SC2 US WG10 File formats

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 10.

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TC171 SC2 US WG11 Trusted system

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 11.

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TC171 SC2 US WG12 Metadata

US mirror committee for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 12

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ECM WG

Best practices on managing ESI.

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StratML WG

Promoting awareness of StratML.

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PDF Association membership offers many technical benefits to developers and significant marketing value to software publishers.

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