Now marking its 20th year in operation, the PDF Association evolved from a collaboration of five German companies focused on … Read more

PDF’s stakeholders and developers span the globe. Here, we visualize the community’s reach.

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

Join us for this webinar to discuss ideas for reinventing 3D PDFs. We’ll explore how to make 3D PDFs better, … Read more

We analyzed PDF/UA-1 validation results across multiple commonly used tools using 155 reference files. This article shares key observations to … Read more

Developers rarely ask about PDF standards upfront, until an accessibility audit fails or a government contract demands it. By then, … Read more

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

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

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

Adobe has renewed its Standards Support Endowment for 2026, marking the 8th year of this program.

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

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

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

Has it been a year already? Let’s recap developments in 2025.

Discover our new PDF merch shop! Order branded apparel and accessories for delivery worldwide.

PDF developers know that Adobe turned over PDF to ISO in 2008 with the publication of ISO 32000-1, the ISO-ized … Read more

A PDF icon doesn’t mean that the link goes to a PDF | Register for PDF Week London | Save … Read more

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

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

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

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

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

Submit a Technical Poster to showcase your ideas at PDF Days Europe 2025!

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

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

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

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

The documentary is scheduled for release in early 2024. There’s still time to become a supporter!