Articles

May 2024, Peter Wyatt

Accurately understanding the kinds of data that can be in a PDF and how it is stored can be very important. This … Read more

April 2024, Peter Wyatt

All ISO publications are written according to a set of rules known as the ISO Directives. In this article, the PDF Association’s … Read more

April 2024, axes4 GmbH

Accessibility is vital for ensuring that everyone, regardless of their abilities, can fully participate in society. This article delves into the key … Read more

March 2024, Peter Wyatt

How meaningful is PDF’s version number? SafeDocs’ research reveals that 20% of extant files contain features that exceed the stated version!

March 2024, Peter Wyatt

Peter Wyatt shares his custom metadata panels – very useful for discovering ISO standards and PDF Declarations metadata! (until vendors catch up!)

February 2024, Duff Johnson

It’s time for AI integrators to help authors make semantically rich documents… and step up their game on PDF inputs.

January 2024, PDF Association staff

A major focus of the PDF Association’s work is to increase awareness and adoption of standards and best practices for accessibility.

January 2024, PDF Association staff

The PDF, ICC, NITF and video datasets used in SafeDocs’ performer hackathons and evaluations are now available for download from digitalcorpora.org.

December 2023, PDF Association staff

In 2023, the volunteers and staff of the PDF Association were busier than ever, with new working groups, resources, and projects to … Read more

December 2023, Duff Johnson

It’s difficult to find other search terms that share PDF’s continuous upwards trend. Few technologies show this resilience, especially over such a … Read more

December 2023, PDF Association staff

Join this webinar to learn why PDF/X-1a was a good idea 20 years ago, but no longer today and find out about … Read more

December 2023, PDF Association staff

The Imaging Model Technical Working Group (TWG) will now focus on the research, specification, and prototyping at the very core of the … Read more

November 2023, Dietrich von Seggern

Callas software’s Dietrich von Seggern describes a few of the innovative technologies under consideration for PDF as discussed at the PDF Association’s … Read more

October 2023, Peter Wyatt

Although PDF is commonly understood as a single holistic file format, in reality, PDF comprises a number of distinct dialects, each designed … Read more

October 2023, PDF Association staff

5 years ago the PDF Accessibility LWG began a project to develop a set of accessibility techniques for PDF files. This project … Read more

October 2023, National Archives and Records Administration

New federal regulations set digitization standards for permanent records and require agencies to manage their permanent records in digital format.

September 2023, Thomas Zellmann

To encourage marketing staff to sign up for the PDF Technology Marketing Working Group we decided to record a recent presentation to … Read more

September 2023, PDF Association staff

PDF Week in San Francisco this October is hosting a free industry Symposium on Advancing the PDF Imaging Model! There’s still time … Read more