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Recordings from PDF Days Europe 2025 are now available

October 2025 by PDF Association staff

PDF Days Europe 2025 was a tremendous success, bringing together the global PDF community to explore AI, accessibility, authenticity, metadata, security, and the evolving user experience in ISO-standardized PDF.

The event showcased what makes the PDF ecosystem unique: a standards-driven, industry-wide collaboration where vendors, implementers, researchers, and users shape the future together.

The video recordings of all 23 presentations are now available – access them via the event agenda, presentation archive, or YouTube playlist to revisit every highlight, discussion, and practical takeaway from this inspiring event!

PDF Days Europe 2025 was a tremendous success, bringing together the global PDF community to explore AI, accessibility, authenticity, metadata, security, and the evolving user experience in ISO-standardized PDF.

The event showcased what makes the PDF ecosystem unique: a standards-driven, industry-wide collaboration where vendors, implementers, researchers, and users shape the future together.

The video recordings of all 23 presentations are now available – access them via the event agenda, presentation archive, or YouTube playlist to revisit every highlight, discussion, and practical takeaway from this inspiring event!

Support the PDF Association documentary: “30 years of PDF”

May 2023 by PDF Association staff
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The documentary is scheduled for release in early 2024. There’s still time to become a supporter!

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May 2023 by Peter Wyatt
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This new corpus – nearly 8 million PDFs totaling about 8 TB – was gathered from across the web in … Read more

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May 2023 by Peter Wyatt
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A new PDF Association service will provide targeted test-cases to highlight interoperability issues resolved in the latest PDF specification.

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April 2023 by PDF Association staff
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PDF’s technical community will gather for its first-ever PDF Week during the first week of May in Paris. The conference … Read more

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April 2023 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association has volunteered to host a new Liaison Working Group (LWG) to bring together experts from both PDF/X … Read more

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April 2023 by Tony McKinley
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Author and longtime PDF evangelist Tony McKinley’s latest book, “PDF Expert”, shares his experience working directly with the world’s most … Read more

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April 2023 by PDF Association staff
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Now anyone can download the latest PDF specification, ISO 32000-2, at NO COST! What are you waiting for?

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March 2023 by PDF Association staff
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All remaining seats at PDF Week are reserved for ISO WG attendees and PDF Association members.

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March 2023 by John Brinkman
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The May meeting of the PDF Forms TWG will begin work on a draft specification for declarative forms in PDF.

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March 2023 by Roman Toda
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The Deriving HTML from PDF TWG’s specification is an important part of their program of work as it supports one … Read more

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March 2023 by Matthew Hardy
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The goal of the Well-Tagged PDF (WTPDF) specification is to ensure high-quality documents that are suitable for content reuse, extraction, … Read more

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