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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 Differences” available to members; public access begins Sept. 22

July 2023 by Peter Wyatt
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PDF Association members now have a new resource: advance previews of targeted test cases highlighting differences between implementations, including in-depth technical explanations.

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July 2023 by Matthew Hardy
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The PDF Association is proud to announce the release of “ISO/TS 32005 Document management – Portable Document Format – PDF … Read more

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July 2023 by Paul Rayius (Allyant)
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This update from the PDF/UA Processor LWG includes an example of its work mapping PDF’s structure types to web accessibility … Read more

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July 2023 by PDF Association staff
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The most recent specification of PDF doesn’t limit page size… at all. That’s up to the implementation.

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July 2023 by Thomas Zellmann
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Why PDF 2.0 is the definition of PDF every developer should use – even if your products don’t support PDF … Read more

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July 2023 by PDF Association staff
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As its members become more active in PDF Association communities we’ve taken new steps to ensure that easy access to … Read more

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July 2023 by PDF Association staff
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Leverage PDF Week Fall 2023 to highlight your support for standardized PDF technology!

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June 2023 by PDF Association staff
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Save October 16-20 for PDF Week Fall 2023 in San Francisco including an open Industry Symposium on Advancing PDF’s Imaging … Read more

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June 2023 by PDF Association staff
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DARPA recognizes the PDF Association’s contributions to its SafeDocs program.

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June 2023 by PDF Association staff
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PDF’s imaging model is due for its first refresh in 20 years. You can participate by joining the new PDF … Read more

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June 2023 by Matthias Wagner
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What if you could simply ask a question to a PDF file? What if you could receive answers that are … Read more

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