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PDF Week Fall 2023

PDF Week Fall 2023

In addition to in-person meetings of PDF Association and ISO working groups, PDF Week Fall 2023 will include a open Symposium on Advancing the PDF imaging model.
EVENT INFO

October 16-20, 2023

Omni Hotel
500 California St.
San Francisco, CA 94104


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PDF Week Fall 2023 San Francisco

As part of our focus on building the ecosystem the home of the worldwide PDF technical community invites its members and delegates to ISO TC 171 SC 2 to PDF Week Fall 2023 in San Francisco!

A special event within this PDF Week is open-to-all Symposium on Advancing PDF’s Imaging Model.

PDF Week offers key benefits for PDF developers, technical product managers and other stakeholders:

  • An opportunity to advance your interpretation and agenda in-person
  • Meet and learn from industry colleagues, international representatives and end users
  • Networking and group events
  • Observe and participate in ISO meetings
  • Build links from ongoing PDF Association technical activities to ISO standardization

The PDF Association thanks the event’s sponsors for their leadership in making PDF Week possible!

Attending PDF Week, October 16-20, 2023

Remote participation is available for PDF Association members (audio / screen-share only) and ISO delegates.

Agenda

PDF Week is for PDF Association members, delegates to ISO TC 171 SC 2 and observers. The event consists of members-only PDF Association Technical and Liaison Working Groups and ISO WGs. Tuesday’s Symposium on Advancing the PDF Imaging Model is open to members and non-members alike, but remote attendance at the Symposium is limited to members.

October 16: PDF Association working groups

Open to: PDF Association members and non-member observers.

Time Event
0830 – 0900 Registration
0900 – 0915 Opening Remarks
0915 – 1030 PDF TWG
1030 – 1100 Coffee break
1100 – 1230 PDF TWG
1230 – 1330 Lunch
1330 – 1500 Imaging Model TWG
1500 – 1530 Coffee break
1530 – 1730 Imaging Model TWG

October 17: Symposium on Advancing the PDF Imaging Model

The Imaging Model TWG is evaluating possible new imaging technologies and capabilities for future versions of PDF. The Symposium will be dedicated to open and frank discussions under the Chatham House Rule  on some of the various proposals for significant enhancements to PDF’s imaging model.

The Symposium is open to everyone! It will bring together experts in file formats, color and codecs, office suite developers, illustrators and graphic designers, web technology experts from various industries. Membership in the PDF Association is NOT required to attend. Non-members must register for the Symposium, but there’s no cost to attend.

Time Event
0830 – 0900 Registration
0900 – 0915 Opening Remarks
0915 – 1000 Why is it time to move PDF onwards and upwards, and break the status-quo?
1000 – 1030 Lessons from the past: If, when & how to make breaking changes to PDF
1030 – 1100 Coffee break
1100 – 1200 Next generation color models including HDR & spectral imaging
1200 – 1300 Lunch (provided)
1300 – 1400 Optimizing storage: modern image encodings, compression filters, and graphic effects
1400 – 1430 Coffee break
1430 – 1530 All things text, fonts and Unicode
1530 – 1630 The future of electronic documents: 3D, rich media, animation and more
1630 – 1700 Summary and next steps

Stay after the Symposium for a group dinner at a nearby restaurant.

October 18: PDF Association & ISO TC 171 SC 2

Open to: PDF Association members, ISO delegates and non-member observers.

Time Event Event (room 2)
0900 – 1045 Digital Signature TWG
1045 – 1100 Break
1100 – 1245 Accessibility LWG DocRM and SC2 WG10
1245 – 1400 Lunch (self-organized)
1400 – 1545 RichMedia TWG
SC2 WG7
1545 – 1600 Break
1600 – 1730 SC2 WG8 (Inc. DGs)

October 19: PDF Association & ISO TC 171 SC 2

Open to: PDF Association members, ISO delegates and non-member observers.

Time Event
0900 – 1045 Forms TWG
1045 – 1100 Break
1100 – 1245 Deriving HTML from PDF TWG
1245 – 1400 Lunch (self-organized)
1400 – 1545 PDF/UA Processor
1545 – 1600 Break
1600 – 1730 PDF Reuse TWG
PDF/UA TWG
TC 171 SC 2 WG 9

October 20: PDF Association & ISO TC 171 SC 2

Open to: PDF Association members, ISO delegates and non-member observers.

Time Event
0900 – 1045 PDF/A TWG
Aligning PDF/A and PDF/X LWG
1045 – 1100 Break
1100 – 1230 PDF/A TWG
Aligning PDF/A and PDF/X LWG
TC 171 SC2 WG5
1230 – 1330 Lunch (self-organized)
1330 – 1500 EA-PDF LWG
1500 – 1515 Break
1515 – 1630 EA-PDF LWG
1630 – 1730 SC2 Plenary

Location

PDF Week Fall 2023 will be held at the Omni hotel in downtown San Francisco. Registered attendees will receive a link to a discounted nightly rate.

Registration

Registration is now closed.

Sponsors

The PDF Association is grateful to the companies whose generous donations make PDF Week possible.

Key supporters

Logos of Adobe, callas and Foxit

Industry supporters

Logo of Apryse

Datalogics logo

TargetStream Technologies logo

 


* The PDF Association reserves the right to validate non-member attendees’ interest before accepting their registration, but outside of communications (email or Slack) specific to this event, will not add such addresses to any mailing list without express permission to do so.


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