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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.

PDF/A Competence Center Expands to PDF Association to Cover ALL Open International Standards for PDF!

September 2011 by Olaf Drümmer
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The PDF/A Competence Center is now part of a larger organization dedicated to promoting International Standards for PDF. As the PDF Association, numerous world-leading companies and experts in PDF technology … Read more

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August 2011 by PDF Association staff
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The Isartor test suite is available from pdfa.org free of charge. It can be used to check PDF validation software … Read more

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May 2011 by 100th German Library Day Steps into the Future with PDF/A

More than 3,000 librarians from all provinces will exchange experiences and learn about new trends and developments in librarianship, including … Read more

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January 2011 by Duff Johnson
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Duff Johnson considers the Beyond the PDF workshop and suggests PDF/E as a means of developing real-world solutions for science … Read more

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January 2011 by Duff Johnson
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Duff Johnson reviews a recent report on PDF content accessibility produced by the Australian federal government. The Report accurately characterizes … Read more

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October 2010 by A Historic Setting for the 4th PDF/A Conference Sets the Stage for the Future

The PDF/A Competence Center, the professional association of the PDF/A community, expects great progress in PDF/A adoption over the next … Read more

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October 2010 by Duff Johnson
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NOTE: Since this article was published the ISO specification for PDF/A has added new “parts”. Visit the PDF/A resource page … Read more

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June 2009 by XMP Metadata in PDF/A – European Patent Documents in PDF/A

The European Patent Convention says up to 4,000 new patent applications and specifications are published every week. Since its foundation … Read more

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