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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!

An update on PDF errata

January 2023 by Peter Wyatt
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CTO Peter Wyatt summarizes key takeaways from the first two years of the PDF specification’s public errata process.

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January 2023 by Peter Wyatt
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ISO TC 171 SC 2 is publishing new extensions and clarifications to PDF 2.0 in support of advanced cryptography.

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December 2022 by Duff Johnson
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In 2023 the PDF Association will focus on technical community while the final phase of the SafeDocs program offers an … Read more

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December 2022 by Matthias Valvekens (Matthias Valvekens)
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A commentary on the interoperability of encrypting PDF documents with public-key cryptography.

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December 2022 by Matthias Valvekens (Matthias Valvekens)
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Identifying the signer’s key in a PDF signature: how does that work?

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December 2022 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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Dietrich von Seggern from callas software explains, how companies can optimally prepare PDF files for variable data printing.

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December 2022 by PDF Association staff
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Adobe releases the source code for an early version of PostScript, the forerunner of PDF.

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November 2022 by PDF Association staff
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DARPA will provide seed funding of $1.3M for research and prototyping centered on reinventing the PDF specification and delivering on … Read more

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November 2022 by PDF Association staff
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Our all-new presentation archive now includes recordings from PDF Days Europe 2022!

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November 2022 by PDF Association staff
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Impressions of the PDF Days Europe 2022 in September in Berlin at the Novotel Tiergarten. Images of several keynotes, sessions, … Read more

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October 2022 by Duff Johnson
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As of October 28 2022 worldwide searches for “pdf” had peaked in March, 2022. Even as internet searches continue to … Read more

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