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Looking back at PDF Days

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.

The route to PDF/X and where we are now: a personal history

April 2022 by Global Graphics Software
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Martin Bailey reflects on the history of PDF/X and its impact on production printing and the exchange of documents in PDF workflows.

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April 2022 by Peter Wyatt
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Non-rectangular links are coming to PDF 2.0! This article offers some background to link technology in PDF and discusses the … Read more

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April 2022 by Peter Wyatt
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With the publication of ISO/TS 24064 PDF 2.0 now supports three 3D formats: U3D, PRC and STEP.

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April 2022 by Thomas Zellmann
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This post provides a quick overview of PDF/UA that explains what PDF/UA is, why it should be used, what is … Read more

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March 2022 by PDF Association staff
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Members and non-members alike are welcome to submit proposals to present at the world’s premiere PDF technology event this September!

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March 2022 by Dov Isaacs (Dov Isaacs)
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Dov Isaacs discusses the issues and opportunities that the print publishing industry faces and how the PDF/X standard can help … Read more

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March 2022 by Dov Isaacs (Dov Isaacs)
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In this part of the ‘Twenty Years of PDF/X’ series, Dov Isaacs discusses the success and adoption of the PDF/X … Read more

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March 2022 by Dov Isaacs (Dov Isaacs)
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In this part of ‘Twenty Years of PDF/X’, Dov Isaacs explores how PDF/X tamed PostScript and its impact on the … Read more

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March 2022 by Dov Isaacs (Dov Isaacs)
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This is the first of a four part series of articles examining the path leading to today’s PDF/X standards.

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March 2022 by François Charette (Compart GmbH)
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Function as a Service (FaaS) as a relatively new cloud model is also an attractive option in document and output … Read more

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March 2022 by Thomas Zellmann
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This post provides users with a quick overview of PDF/A explaining what it is, why it should be used, what … Read more

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