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January 2026

Our all-new product showcase is live!

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

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May 2-5 2023: the first-ever PDF Week

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 features in-person meetings of industry working groups alongside the ISO … 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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March 2023 by Markus Erle
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The PDF Accessibility Liaison Working Group (LWG) is taking aim at providing a full set of techniques to demonstrate correct … Read more

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March 2023 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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PDF/A – the ISO standard for long-term archiving – now has four sub-standards. This raises an obvious question: which one … Read more

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March 2023 by Patrick Gallot
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The 3D and RichMedia Technical Working Groups will be combining for an in-person session during PDF Week 2023 Paris to … Read more

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