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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.

A new Competence Center for PDF/E

February 2016 by Duff Johnson
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As with every other industry, the architectural, engineering and construction industries have been slowly transitioning from paper to electronic documentation and specifications. PDF/E is the ISO subset of PDF designed … Read more

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February 2016 by Duff Johnson
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PDF files can be hard to search with confidence. Here’s why it matters, how it happens, and what you can … Read more

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February 2016 by Duff Johnson
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Videos and presentations from the November, 2015 PDF Accessibility Days are now available!

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February 2016 by Duff Johnson
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Now a Partner Organization, the 3D PDF Consortium will bring the experience of 3D PDF development and implementation to the … Read more

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January 2016 by PDF Association staff
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An R&D engineer at heart and an active PDF software developer, Peter brings new energy to the Project Leader role.

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January 2016 by Matthias Wagner
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This is an incremental bugfix release based on the earlier 1.8.10 release. It contains a couple of fixes and small … Read more

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January 2016 by PDF Association staff
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PDF/VT Application Notes available

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December 2015 by Duff Johnson
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veraPDF 0.8 includes several updated features and a variety of bug-fixes.

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December 2015 by PDF Association staff
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Download the first public draft of the PDF Structure Elements Best Practice Guide today!

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December 2015 by PDF Association staff
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The coming year means more PDF files, more PDF creators supporting PDF/UA and leveraging PDF/A-3. The space continues to grow, … Read more

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December 2015 by Duff Johnson
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Videos from the PDF Technical Conference are now posted!

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