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September 2025 by PDF Association staff

The just-completed PDF Days Europe 2025 featured a diverse program exploring the future of PDF, with a focus on AI, accessibility, authenticity, and user experience. Thank you to all who attended, spoke and worked so hard to make this event a reality!

The event showcased the collaborative nature of the PDF ecosystem, bringing together vendors, implementers, researchers, and users to shape its future.

Key topics included harnessing AI for content creation and management, ensuring document security and authenticity, and improving accessibility and production workflows.

The just-completed PDF Days Europe 2025 featured a diverse program exploring the future of PDF, with a focus on AI, accessibility, authenticity, and user experience. Thank you to all who attended, spoke and worked so hard to make this event a reality!

The event showcased the collaborative nature of the PDF ecosystem, bringing together vendors, implementers, researchers, and users to shape its future.

Key topics included harnessing AI for content creation and management, ensuring document security and authenticity, and improving accessibility and production workflows.

Announcing PDF Week Prague – November 4-8, 2024

August 2024 by PDF Association staff
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The third PDF Week of 2024 will be hosted by Charles University in the beautiful city of Prague, in the Czech Republic! PDF Association members are invited to register now!

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July 2024 by Peter Wyatt
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To avoid confusing and frustrating users, applications can and should be robustly prepared for significant changes to PDF – with … Read more

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July 2024 by Peter Wyatt
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May 2024 by Peter Wyatt
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Accurately understanding the kinds of data that can be in a PDF and how it is stored can be very … Read more

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April 2024 by Peter Wyatt
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All ISO publications are written according to a set of rules known as the ISO Directives. In this article, the … Read more

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Accessibility is vital for ensuring that everyone, regardless of their abilities, can fully participate in society. This article delves into … Read more

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March 2024 by Peter Wyatt
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How meaningful is PDF’s version number? SafeDocs’ research reveals that 20% of extant files contain features that exceed the stated … Read more

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March 2024 by Peter Wyatt
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Peter Wyatt shares his custom metadata panels – very useful for discovering ISO standards and PDF Declarations metadata! (until vendors … Read more

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February 2024 by Duff Johnson
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It’s time for AI integrators to help authors make semantically rich documents… and step up their game on PDF inputs.

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