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5 reasons to attend PDF Days in 2025

July 2025 by Duff Johnson

Insight. PDF Days is a great place to learn about new approaches, ask vendors hard questions, and benefit from centuries of collective wisdom.

Networking. PDF Days is a great way to make connections with peers, vendors, customers, regulators, and more.

Inspiration. I’ve been told that attendees value PDF Days for the information they did NOT come to learn, but that nonetheless offered real value.

Learning. PDF Days, together with the PDF Workshop immediately prior, is an ideal opportunity to help new developers, consultants, product managers and marketers deepen their knowledge of PDF’s capabilities and the competitive landscape.

Foresight. PDF Days is an opportunity to hear first-hand about coming advances in PDF technology and discover what’s next for PDF!

Insight. PDF Days is a great place to learn about new approaches, ask vendors hard questions, and benefit from centuries of collective wisdom.

Networking. PDF Days is a great way to make connections with peers, vendors, customers, regulators, and more.

Inspiration. I’ve been told that attendees value PDF Days for the information they did NOT come to learn, but that nonetheless offered real value.

Learning. PDF Days, together with the PDF Workshop immediately prior, is an ideal opportunity to help new developers, consultants, product managers and marketers deepen their knowledge of PDF’s capabilities and the competitive landscape.

Foresight. PDF Days is an opportunity to hear first-hand about coming advances in PDF technology and discover what’s next for PDF!

The new PDF 2.0 and subset standards

December 2020 by PDF Association staff
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A brief survey of ISO 32000-2:2020 and its associated subset standards for archiving, print, transactional and variable print and raster imaging.

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December 2020 by PDF Association staff
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The 2020 edition includes a number of critical updates to normative references as well as other corrections and clarifications. It … Read more

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December 2020 by PDF Association staff
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The US National Archives and Records Administration’s new proposal for standardization of digitization of permanent federal records is available for … Read more

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November 2020 by PDF Association staff
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OctoberPDFest recordings are now available! 31 videos offer a wide variety of perspectives on our favorite format.

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July 2020 by Ferass Elrayes
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Google’s Chrome browser now creates tagged PDF files when the “Save as PDF” option is selected (Control / Command-P).

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May 2020 by PDF Association staff
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The latest release of the industry-supported PDF/A validator has been released. An open source project developed by the Open Preservation … Read more

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May 2020 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association and the 3D PDF Consortium have partnered to develop a high-level introduction to the role and capabilities … Read more

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May 2020 by PDF Association staff
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The objective of the draft report on archiving email with PDF is to describe how advanced PDF-based capture, preservation, rendering, … Read more

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March 2020 by Peter Wyatt
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Now available from ISO: the Draft International Standard (DIS) version of the latest ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) standard is ready … Read more

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October 2019 by PDF Association staff
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In the late 1990s Karl’s ‘Planet PDF’ created a worldwide PDF community and went on to found successful companies leveraging … Read more

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October 2019 by PDF Association staff
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These vulnerabilities require an attacker to modify an encrypted PDF file, potentially leading to the exfiltration of the document’s contents … Read more

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