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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.

SafeDocs Phase 3: Revolutionizing file format specifications, beginning with PDF

November 2022 by PDF Association staff
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DARPA will provide seed funding of $1.3M for research and prototyping centered on reinventing the PDF specification and delivering on the benefits of defining file formats using unambiguous machine-readable assets.

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November 2022 by PDF Association staff
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Our all-new presentation archive now includes recordings from PDF Days Europe 2022!

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November 2022 by PDF Association staff
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Impressions of the PDF Days Europe 2022 in September in Berlin at the Novotel Tiergarten. Images of several keynotes, sessions, … Read more

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October 2022 by Duff Johnson
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As of October 28 2022 worldwide searches for “pdf” had peaked in March, 2022. Even as internet searches continue to … Read more

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October 2022 by PDF Association staff
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In a new podcast episode, SE Radio’s Gavin Henry interviews PDF Association CTO Wyatt and CEO Johnson about a wide … Read more

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October 2022 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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Some time ago Adobe announced that it “will disable support for authoring with Type 1 fonts by January 2023”. Dietrich … Read more

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September 2022 by PDF Association staff
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Following PDF Days Europe, the PDF Association’s annual All-Member Meeting met in Berlin on September 13, 2022 to hear the … Read more

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September 2022 by Duff Johnson
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PDF Days Europe 2022 was a great success, with the overwhelming majority of attendees reporting a high degree of satisfaction.

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September 2022 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association publishes new guidance to aide in optimizing PDF files for maximally-efficient rendering and print.

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August 2022 by PDF Association staff
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Register now for your last chance this year for two days of immersion in PDF technology expertise and PDF industry … Read more

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August 2022 by John Brinkman (Adobe)
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John Brinkman provides an update on the work of the PDF Association’s Forms TWG and its development of the next … Read more

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