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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!

All top word-processors default to Tagged PDF

June 2025 by PDF Association staff
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If you use a word processor creating Tagged PDF is your default. | FOGRA’s summary of developments in print | The US Library of Congress is studying the PDF Association’s … Read more

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May 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Accessibility | veraPDF version 1.28.1 | Chrome PDF features updates | Transparency blending | Screen readers and special characters | … Read more

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April 2025 by PDF Association staff
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AI’s Pirated-Books Problem | Correcting US financial regulations referencing PDF | New crawl limit improves CC’s capture of PDF | … Read more

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March 2025 by PDF Association staff
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When will AI understand document semantics? | Will LLM-based OCR live up to the challenge? | Indicating whether the publisher … Read more

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February 2025 by PDF Association staff
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PDF bookmarks from Google Chrome? | What does “PDF” mean to you? | Two reasons why everyone needs PDF | … Read more

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January 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Doom in a PDF | PDF Week Boston 2025 | The EAA is coming! | AI and accessibility standards | … Read more

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December 2024 by PDF Association staff
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A close-up look at how PDF does text | What would Patton think? | Word bug blocks PDF/UA validators, Happy … Read more

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November 2024 by PDF Association staff
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New guidance on PDF Portable Collections and on digitizing paper. | US Army website features PDF/UA | PDFism! | Scratch-and-sniff … Read more

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October 2024 by PDF Association staff
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In 2025 Europe will require ebooks to be accessible and include detailed accessibility metadata while Germany will require e-invoicing. | … Read more

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September 2024 by PDF Association staff
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File type for downloadable forms, in 3 letters | Mobile devices are pain-points for forms | But, Android support for … Read more

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August 2024 by PDF Association staff
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Devs must VALIDATE before applying ISO-standardized subset metadata to PDFs! | PDF Week Prague accommodations | OPF patches JHOVE | … Read more

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