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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!

veraPDF 0.16: full support for all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A

June 2016 by Duff Johnson
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The veraPDF purpose-built validator for PDF/A now covers all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A.

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May 2016 by Alexandra Oettler
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At drupa 2016, the world’s leading trade show for graphic and industrial print as well as media and multichannel, PDF … Read more

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May 2016 by Duff Johnson
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Apple’s latest tablet brings ColorSync functionality to iOS.

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May 2016 by Duff Johnson
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Along with 65 new atomic test suite files, the 0.14 release features validation of all parts and conformance levels of … Read more

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April 2016 by Duff Johnson
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PDF Association Executive Director Duff Johnson wins the Thomas Bagg Standards Award.

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April 2016 by Matthias Wagner
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The 2016 PSD handbook version is published – German version will be provided soon.

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April 2016 by Duff Johnson
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PDF’s value-proposition is exemplified by a USB key developed to monitor temperatures in shipping containers.

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March 2016 by Duff Johnson
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veraPDF 0.12 features improved PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b validation and a complete REST API.

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March 2016 by Duff Johnson
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An optional PDF/UA conversion add-on will soon allow users to create PDF/UA documents from Google Docs.

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March 2016 by Duff Johnson
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PDF/UA is the newest US National Standard, and it’s available for only $15 from aiim.org!

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March 2016 by Duff Johnson
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It’s a milestone release for this open source, permissively-licensed Java software for PDF creation and processing.

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