PDF Association staff
The PDF Association staff delivers a vendor-neutral platform for PDF's stakeholders, facilitating the development of open specifications and ISO standards for PDF technology. The staff are located in Germany, the United States and Australia.
Staff members include:
- Alexandra Oettler (Editor),
- Betsy Fanning (Standards Director),
- Duff Johnson (Chief Executive Officer),
- Melina Tusch (Member Benefit Manager),
- Matthias Wagner (CFO & Operations Director),
- Peter Wyatt (Chief Technology Officer),
- Thomas Zellmann (PDF Evangelist).
PDF Association staff's Publications
Article May 11, 2021
An overview of industry working-group activities pertaining to tagged PDF.
News April 22, 2021
Version 1.18 of veraPDF, the industry-supported PDF/A validator, is now available for download, and now includes support for PDF/UA-1 (machine … Read more
PDF Association news April 22, 2021
The document promotes adoption of the ISO standard for accessible PDF by software developers, service bureaus and others interested in … Read more
News April 19, 2021
The PDF community was saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Chuck Geschke, one of the visionaries who helped … Read more
PDF Association news April 15, 2021
A domain-specific subset of PDF, PDF/R is simple to generate and interpret, allowing it to replace the TIFF and JPEG … Read more
News March 19, 2021
Die Technische Universität Dresden hat sehr kompakte und übersichtliche Anleitungen erstellt, die gut verständlich beschreiben, wie man barrierefreie PDF-Dokumente erzeugen … Read more
News March 19, 2021
The Technical University of Dresden has created very compact and clear instructions that describe in an easy-to-understand manner how to … Read more
News March 16, 2021
PDF 2.0 Application Note 003 identifies precise locations for PDF objects’ XMP metadata to help drive interoperability across all PDF … Read more
PDF Association news March 4, 2021
PDF Days Europe 2021 is coming in September, 2021! Join us for a hybrid online / in-person event that allows … Read more



