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The PDF Association publishes normative and informative guidance documents, examples, glossaries, FAQs and other resources for those interested in leveraging PDF technology. On behalf of ISO and ANSI, the PDF Association also distributes ISO standards relating to PDF technology.

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Comprehensive requirements for software that seeks to create fully reusable and accessible PDF 2.0 files … Read more

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Current status of the ISO standards development work in the program of work for ISO … Read more

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PDF and FDF COS syntax VSCode extension for PDF developers interested in learning PDF as … Read more

ISO/TS 32005 extends ISO 32000-2 to clarify inclusion rules for using tags defined in the … Read more

An informative representation of the allowable containment of structure element types as defined in ISO/TS … Read more

ISO/TS 32003 is an extension that adds AES-GCM support to PDF 2.0.

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The Arlington PDF Model is a free and open-source machine-readable data model of all PDF … Read more

This document explains how to extend PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2:2020) by adding the ISO 10303-242 … Read more

This page provides external links to all legacy Adobe PDF references and errata, as well … Read more

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The PDF Association’s repositories in GitHub. Public repositories welcome contributions and comments from the public. … Read more

ISO standards for PDF

The definitive list of all ISO standards for PDF technology.

ISO/TS 32002 is a PDF 2.0 extension specification that adds support for NIST-P, Brainpool, Edwards … Read more

ISO/TS 32001 specifies how to extend PDF 2.0 by adding support for the use of … Read more

ISO/TS 32004 is a PDF 2.0 extension that provides integrity protection along with confidentiality for … Read more

This guide is intended to help designers, composition tool operators and software vendors avoid creating … Read more

This guide is intended to help developers or software vendors to ensure PDF files can … Read more

This document specifies the set of metadata to be used to communicate the approval status, … Read more

Terms from the glossary.

Explanations of technical terms related to accessibility as used in the PDF and PDF/UA standards.

This document specifies Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) interchange as a container for document objects by … Read more

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This page provides links to 3rd party resources pertaining to making 3D models accessible.

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This glossary includes simplified descriptions of both technical and common-use terms and acronyms, helping both … Read more

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