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Agenda Announced for PDF Days Europe 2025

June 2025 by PDF Association staff

There’s simply no better way to learn about PDF and network in the PDF technology space than PDF Days!

Across two keynotes, 21 educational presentations, a Technical Poster competition, a Solutions Poster session, briefings from working group chairs and the classic “elevator pitch” session, the PDF Days experience in 2025 will be wide-ranging and current.

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There’s simply no better way to learn about PDF and network in the PDF technology space than PDF Days!

Across two keynotes, 21 educational presentations, a Technical Poster competition, a Solutions Poster session, briefings from working group chairs and the classic “elevator pitch” session, the PDF Days experience in 2025 will be wide-ranging and current.

View the complete agenda and register now!

Members, get working on your technical posters! (login required)

New large-scale PDF corpus now publicly available

May 2023 by Peter Wyatt
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This new corpus – nearly 8 million PDFs totaling about 8 TB – was gathered from across the web in July/August of 2021.

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May 2023 by Peter Wyatt
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A new PDF Association service will provide targeted test-cases to highlight interoperability issues resolved in the latest PDF specification.

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April 2023 by PDF Association staff
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PDF’s technical community will gather for its first-ever PDF Week during the first week of May in Paris. The conference … Read more

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April 2023 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association has volunteered to host a new Liaison Working Group (LWG) to bring together experts from both PDF/X … Read more

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April 2023 by Tony McKinley
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Author and longtime PDF evangelist Tony McKinley’s latest book, “PDF Expert”, shares his experience working directly with the world’s most … Read more

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April 2023 by PDF Association staff
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Now anyone can download the latest PDF specification, ISO 32000-2, at NO COST! What are you waiting for?

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March 2023 by PDF Association staff
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All remaining seats at PDF Week are reserved for ISO WG attendees and PDF Association members.

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March 2023 by John Brinkman
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The May meeting of the PDF Forms TWG will begin work on a draft specification for declarative forms in PDF.

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March 2023 by Roman Toda
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The Deriving HTML from PDF TWG’s specification is an important part of their program of work as it supports one … Read more

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March 2023 by Matthew Hardy
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The goal of the Well-Tagged PDF (WTPDF) specification is to ensure high-quality documents that are suitable for content reuse, extraction, … Read more

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March 2023 by Markus Erle
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The PDF Accessibility Liaison Working Group (LWG) is taking aim at providing a full set of techniques to demonstrate correct … Read more

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