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The PDF Association at 20

Founded as the PDF/A Competence Center in 2006, in 2026 the PDF Association is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Over the past two decades it has grown into a global, vendor-neutral organization with over 150 members from 30 countries. Its mission is to advance ISO standards for PDF technology, facilitate technical working groups across various domains (like accessibility and cryptography), and host international events.

The PDF Association’s work ensures that PDF remains an open, interoperable, and continuously evolving document format.

Duff Johnson

By Duff Johnson
February 2026

The PDF Association at 20


Founded as the PDF/A Competence Center in 2006, in 2026 the PDF Association is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Over the past two decades it has grown into a global, vendor-neutral organization with over 150 members from 30 countries. Its mission is to advance ISO standards for PDF technology, facilitate technical working groups across various domains (like accessibility and cryptography), and host international events.

The PDF Association’s work ensures that PDF remains an open, interoperable, and continuously evolving document format.

Duff Johnson
By Duff Johnson
February 2026

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December 2025 by Diana Kosovac (PDFix)
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We analyzed PDF/UA-1 validation results across multiple commonly used tools using 155 reference files. This article shares key observations to … Read more


December 2025 by Anne Lazarakis (Iron Software)
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Developers rarely ask about PDF standards upfront, until an accessibility audit fails or a government contract demands it. By then, … Read more


December 2025 by Peter Wyatt
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We report on the technical aspects of the PDF files released by the US Department of Justice in connection with … Read more


December 2025 by Duff Johnson
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I asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and CoPilot about PDF’s future. They agree that PDF isn’t fading – it’s becoming infrastructure.


December 2025 by Peter Wyatt
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Starting In 2025, the three most significant ISO standardized subsets of PDF – PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/UA – are now … Read more


December 2025 by Anne Lazarakis (Iron Software)
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Developers evaluating HTML to PDF libraries have specific compliance and accessibility requirements. Sales teams who understand PDF/UA and PDF/A can … Read more

News from the PDF Association

Announcements, publications, events and other updates.


February 2026 by PDF Association staff
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Adobe has renewed its Standards Support Endowment for 2026, marking the 8th year of this program.


February 2026 by PDF Association staff
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PDF Week Online brings together PDF’s technical community to advance industry projects. All members are welcome to attend!


January 2026 by PDF Association staff
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Following PDF Week Online in February, PDF Week London 2026 is the second of three PDF Association events in 2026.


January 2026 by PDF Association staff
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The new product showcase helps users explore the variety of products and services provided by PDF Association members!


December 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Has it been a year already? Let’s recap developments in 2025.


December 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Discover our new PDF merch shop! Order branded apparel and accessories for delivery worldwide.

News from PDF Association members

PDF Association members post updates on their software and services.


February 2023 by Eric Shore (Datalogics)
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pdfRest is the easiest solution for developers to integrate PDF processing into any business application with a flexible REST API … Read more


February 2023 by Nutrient
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PSPDFKit reported record results for 2022, continuing a trend of accelerating growth and momentum. In total, the company achieved bookings … Read more


February 2023 by Mary Ann Rowan (Solimar Systems)
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Solimar Systems will demonstrate its workflow-enhancing printing and PDF solutions at Hunkeler Innovationdays (HID), from February 27th to March 2nd, … Read more


February 2023 by Lindsey Schroeder (Datalogics)
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PDF Optimizer is a command-line application from Datalogics that helps businesses and developers optimize their PDFs to make them easier … Read more


February 2023 by Mary Ann Rowan (Solimar Systems)
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IWCO recently invested $50 million in new printing equipment, including multiple HP PageWide Web Presses, to run alongside its existing … Read more


February 2023 by Carsten Luedtge (Compart GmbH)
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A large European service company developed an infrastructure for its customer communications that can be accessed by both the self-hosted … Read more

PDF in the Wild

Our (occasionally lighthearted) monthly post covering items of interest to PDF’s technical community.


January 2026 by PDF Association staff
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HuggingFace echoes SafeDocs with new PDF datasets | Chrome does NOT sign or annotate your PDF! | ONIX application note … Read more


December 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Chrome’s U-turn on JPEG-XL – thanks (in part) to PDF! | PDF errata makeover | ZUGFeRD 2.4 / Factur-X 1.08 … Read more


November 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Browsers leverage PDF in their battle for dominance | Your PDF says a lot about you | Is Big Data … Read more


October 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Milestones in the History of PDF | Chrome’s newest feature | JPEG 2000 turns 25 | Windows 11 October 2025 … Read more


September 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Thank you Berlin | PDF 2.0 support gets top billing in coverage of LibreOffice 25.8 | Now Tagged PDF and … Read more


August 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Encoding multilingual content | The US Library of Congress recognizes individual PDF/A-4 conformance levels | “There was no book” | … Read more

PDF Association news for members


May 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Submit a Technical Poster to showcase your ideas at PDF Days Europe 2025!


May 2025 by PDF Association staff
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To give you – our members – more visibility, the main landing-page of pdfa.org now includes our members’ logos, showcasing … Read more


November 2024 by PDF Association staff
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We’ve started a free XML e-invoice viewing service to help end users to visualise their XML invoices. By adding their … Read more


September 2024 by PDF Association staff
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PDF Association members – especially those working on PDF’s imaging model – can now access TC 42 WG 23 resources … Read more


May 2024 by Peter Wyatt
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LOGIN REQUIRED: These synthetic files are intended for user experience and human-computer interaction (HCI) specialists to assess the behavior of … Read more


May 2023 by PDF Association staff
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