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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!

Proposed Regulation for Digitizing US Government Records

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 comment.

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November 2020 by PDF Association staff
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Those seeking PDF technology solutions used to have to do all the hard work of identifying and soliciting competent vendors. … 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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November 2020 by Peter Wyatt
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The original PDF Issue Tracker corpus generated a lot of interest from the PDF technical community; now version 2 of … Read more

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October 2020 by Duff Johnson
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Introduction Akin to our earlier series on the Mueller Report PDF, this article provides cultural framing and technical background for … Read more

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September 2020 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association’s new PDF Forms Technical Working Group (TWG) is advancing PDF Forms technologies through the introduction of new … Read more

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September 2020 by PDF Association staff
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Starting October 5, the PDF Association’s free webinar series celebrates the diversity of PDF technology capabilities and solutions with a … Read more

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September 2020 by Bernd Wild (intarsys GmbH)
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The history of integration of digital signatures in PDF together with the underlying public standards like PAdES, CAdES and XAdES … Read more

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September 2020 by Paul Rayius (CommonLook)
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While testing and verification is never a bad idea, the advantages of automation include speeding up processes and removing human … Read more

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September 2020 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association’s PDF/UA Technical Working Group (PDF/UA TWG) has published a new PDF/UA Reference Suite, an update to the … Read more

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September 2020 by Peter Wyatt
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Interoperability is the core value proposition of the PDF file format. Although interoperability comes from sharing a clear and precise … Read more

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