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News about PDF Days Europe 2025!

PDF Days Europe 2025 is the main event in this year’s PDF triathlon in Berlin!

Learn about Monday’s keynote speaker and the new technical and solutions poster sessions driving our updated format. The Technical poster session is competitive! Learn more (requires member login to pdfa.org).

This year, Peter Wyatt’s PDF Workshop targets the next generation of PDF experts, providing a foundational understanding for doing PDF correctly via a two-day intensive workshop focusing on validity and correctness in PDF files.

Tickets will be available soon.

Jpegli works in PDF

February 2025 by Peter Wyatt
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Google’s Jpegli promises smaller JPEG images (and so, smaller PDF files) with no change to reader software! Check it out for yourself!

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February 2025 by PDF Association
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PDF Week Boston 2025 is the first of two members-only events in 2025 focused on PDF technology specifications and standards … Read more

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February 2025 by PDF Association staff
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PDF bookmarks from Google Chrome? | What does “PDF” mean to you? | Two reasons why everyone needs PDF | … Read more

PDF in the Wild

February 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Organizations worldwide rely on email at almost every level of daily operations, but lack options for effectively preserving and accessing … Read more

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January 2025 by Peter Wyatt
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What’s the smallest possible fully compliant and validatable PDF file? We set out to answer the question.

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January 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Doom in a PDF | PDF Week Boston 2025 | The EAA is coming! | AI and accessibility standards | … Read more

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January 2025 by Peter Wyatt
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Triggered by our own experience in preparing the cheat sheet collection, this article explores the capabilities of PDF collections and … Read more

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January 2025 by PDF Association staff
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A list of PDF Association members’ free and commercial software that exposes the relationship between a PDF’s page content and … Read more

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January 2025 by PDF Association staff
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These new Techniques for Accessible PDF are designed to help software developers, document authors, and remediators create accessible PDF files … Read more

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December 2024 by PDF Association staff
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We’re bringing back PDF Days by popular demand! Join the world’s PDF experts in Berlin this coming September for two … Read more

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December 2024 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association is now recognizing, on an annual basis, a single volunteer who has made major contributions to the … Read more

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