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Recordings from PDF Days Europe 2025 are now available

October 2025 by PDF Association staff

PDF Days Europe 2025 was a tremendous success, bringing together the global PDF community to explore AI, accessibility, authenticity, metadata, security, and the evolving user experience in ISO-standardized PDF.

The event showcased what makes the PDF ecosystem unique: a standards-driven, industry-wide collaboration where vendors, implementers, researchers, and users shape the future together.

The video recordings of all 23 presentations are now available – access them via the event agenda, presentation archive, or YouTube playlist to revisit every highlight, discussion, and practical takeaway from this inspiring event!

PDF Days Europe 2025 was a tremendous success, bringing together the global PDF community to explore AI, accessibility, authenticity, metadata, security, and the evolving user experience in ISO-standardized PDF.

The event showcased what makes the PDF ecosystem unique: a standards-driven, industry-wide collaboration where vendors, implementers, researchers, and users shape the future together.

The video recordings of all 23 presentations are now available – access them via the event agenda, presentation archive, or YouTube playlist to revisit every highlight, discussion, and practical takeaway from this inspiring event!

PDFcontainer – a proposal

February 2018 by Duff Johnson
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Introduction PDF technology profiles can be leveraged to provide trusted, predictable containers for record types that often present workflow and preservation challenges, with email and case files (associated files in … Read more

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February 2018 by PDF Association staff
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Over 260 attendees from 40+ federal and state agencies The latest PDF Day event was held on January 29th at … Read more

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January 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association returns to Washington DC next Monday, January 29, 2018 for PDF Day DC, a single day packed … Read more

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December 2017 by Duff Johnson
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PDF files deliver a complete package of information that defines a document; everything that’s needed to represent the text, graphics … Read more

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December 2017 by PDF Association staff
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Earlier in 2017 both the US Library of Congress and NARA joined the PDF Association as Liaison members, an option available to non-profit … Read more

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December 2017 by Duff Johnson
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What is a “document”? A document is a record of some (typically written) content – a publication, a contract, a … Read more

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December 2017 by Hans Bärfuss
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SD Times, a leading periodical targeting systems and application developers, has featured PDF in its December 2017 publication. The journalists … Read more

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November 2017 by PDF Association staff
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PDF 1.7, the final Adobe edition of the PDF specification, was published in 2006, and converted to an ISO standard … Read more

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November 2017 by PDF Association staff
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The latest release of veraPDF, the industry-supported, open source PDF/A validator, is now available for download. Version 1.10 is the … Read more

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November 2017 by PDF Association staff
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PDF Days Europe is the most popular PDF event of the year. It’s where the PDF industry meets, and where … Read more

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November 2017 by PDF Association staff
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The Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) is a new initiative to promote awareness and development of technologies that contribute to … Read more

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