What is a “document”? A document is a record of some (typically written) content – a publication, a contract, a statement, a painting – at a moment in time. Until the advent of computers (and scanners), the media typically considered useable for such records included papyrus and vellum, which is basically leather. For a thousand … Read more
SD Times, a leading periodical targeting systems and application developers, has featured PDF in its December 2017 publication. The journalists at SD Times interviewed various members of the PDF technology community, including experts from several PDF Association member companies, to get their read on how PDF is faring in the marketplace, what PDF 2.0 means, … Read more
Datalogics, the premier source for PDF, EdTech and eBook technologies, announces the release of PDF OPTIMIZER – a powerful new command-line utility that simplifies the PDF file size reduction process for more efficient file sharing and faster downloads. PDF OPTIMIZER features core functionalities such as stream compression, image manipulation, font subsetting, and object clean up. Now available … Read more
The latest release of veraPDF, the industry-supported, open source PDF/A validator, is now available for download. Version 1.10 is the first release of veraPDF as part of the Open Preservation Foundation’s reference toolset. This release has improvements in creating and cleaning up temporary files as well as parsing of text-related data in PDF documents, resulting … Read more
PDF Days Europe is the most popular PDF event of the year. It’s where the PDF industry meets, and where institutional and corporate users come to learn what else PDF could do for them. The first two PDF Days will offer a broad range of educational sessions focussed on current and perennial topics in the world of PDF technology implementation.
The Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) is a new initiative to promote awareness and development of technologies that contribute to broad-based accessibility in electronic content. This organization has recently posted a matrix of PDF viewers along with information about how these various viewers address the needs of those with print disabilities. PDF developers listed in … Read more


