PDF Association
Home of the worldwide PDF technical community
Originally launched as the PDF/A Competence Center in 2006, the organization’s original function was to promote common understanding of the PDF/A archival subset of the PDF format. It was during this period that the PDF Association developed its first set of PDF/A Technical Notes and the Isartor Test Suite, critical building-blocks for modern implementations of the PDF/A specification.
In 2009 the ISO confirmed the PDF/A Competence Center’s status as a category A liaison with ISO TC 171 SC 2, allowing the organization to act as a conduit for information between members and the ISO committees managing PDF and PDF subset standards.
In 2011 the PDF/A Competence Center became the PDF Association, and formally expanded its scope to include all PDF and PDF-related standards.
The mission of the PDF Association is to promote awareness and adoption of ISO-standardized PDF technology worldwide.
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Published Articles
September 2025, PDF Association staff
Thank you Berlin | PDF 2.0 support gets top billing in coverage of LibreOffice 25.8 | Now Tagged … Read more
September 2025, Peter Wyatt
ISO standardized subsets of PDF, such as PDF/UA, enable files to claim conformance to a specific version of … Read more
September 2025, PDF Association staff
According to Board chair Raf Hens: “The event showcased what makes the PDF ecosystem unique: a standards-driven, industry-wide … Read more
August 2025, PDF Association staff
Encoding multilingual content | The US Library of Congress recognizes individual PDF/A-4 conformance levels | “There was no … Read more
July 2025, Peter Wyatt
We were asked to investigate non-functional internal document (intra-document) hyperlinks in PDFs stored on Google Drive and viewed … Read more
July 2025, PDF Association staff
Browsers battle over PDF capabilities | ISO’s “Publicly Available Standards” page is gone | PDF to Brainrot | … Read more
June 2025, PDF Association staff
If you use a word processor creating Tagged PDF is your default. | FOGRA’s summary of developments in … Read more
June 2025, PDF Association staff
In support of the International Archives Week theme and its four subthemes, the PDF Association is announcing its … Read more
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