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September 2025 by PDF Association staff

The just-completed PDF Days Europe 2025 featured a diverse program exploring the future of PDF, with a focus on AI, accessibility, authenticity, and user experience. Thank you to all who attended, spoke and worked so hard to make this event a reality!

The event showcased the collaborative nature of the PDF ecosystem, bringing together vendors, implementers, researchers, and users to shape its future.

Key topics included harnessing AI for content creation and management, ensuring document security and authenticity, and improving accessibility and production workflows.

The just-completed PDF Days Europe 2025 featured a diverse program exploring the future of PDF, with a focus on AI, accessibility, authenticity, and user experience. Thank you to all who attended, spoke and worked so hard to make this event a reality!

The event showcased the collaborative nature of the PDF ecosystem, bringing together vendors, implementers, researchers, and users to shape its future.

Key topics included harnessing AI for content creation and management, ensuring document security and authenticity, and improving accessibility and production workflows.

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November 2021 by Carsten Luedtge (Compart GmbH)
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Key performance indicator (KPI) systems must also be strictly oriented to the strategic corporate goals in document and output management … Read more

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November 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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PDF Association CTO Peter Wyatt explains the transparent imaging model in PDF and recounts its significance since Adobe introduced this … Read more

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November 2021 by PDF Association staff
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Almost every email client can save email messages as PDF files, but none do so in a manner that retains … Read more

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November 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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This freely-available PDF file includes 8 test cases that only render correctly if the abbreviated key name is used. If … Read more

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October 2021 by Duff Johnson
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The CEO of the PDF Association reflects on the steady expansion of the organization’s mission and the future.

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October 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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PDF issues has been redesigned based on industry feedback: all resolved errata are now published via https://pdf-issues.pdfa.org.

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October 2021 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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Dietrich von Seggern from callas software explains why companies should not leave the generation of PDF/A to their staff, but … Read more

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October 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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On World Standards Day 2021 the PDF Association celebrates PDF’s connection to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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October 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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As a consumer of standards, have you ever stopped and critically reviewed what a standard essentially is and how it … Read more

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October 2021 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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callas software’s Dietrich von Seggern describes what “owned by ISO” really means, and why that matters, in celebration of World … Read more

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