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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

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

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

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

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

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

Read Riley Kooh’s vision for the future of PDF technology over the next 25 years.

The PDF Association’s PDF cheat sheets are designed to help developers work more efficiently. They are highly condensed summaries, with information grouped … Read more

The PDF industry mourns the passing of the Adobe founder and visionary whose inventions and insights led to the creation of PDF.

PDF is a large, complex specification! Developers often look for first steps in its implementation. This article offers some suggestions.

Overcoming ossification requires everyone to agree on the strategy and specific technical changes affecting all stakeholders.

The PDF Association is proud to announce the release of “ISO/TS 32005 Document management – Portable Document Format – PDF 1.7 and … Read more

This update from the PDF/UA Processor LWG includes an example of its work mapping PDF’s structure types to web accessibility APIs.

Why PDF 2.0 is the definition of PDF every developer should use – even if your products don’t support PDF 2.0.

What if you could simply ask a question to a PDF file? What if you could receive answers that are contextually derived, … Read more

Patrick Gallot explains his personal financial support for a forthcoming documentary on the development of the PDF format.

The last 30 years have revealed some persistent truths about how people use and think about information and communication.

This new corpus – nearly 8 million PDFs totaling about 8 TB – was gathered from across the web in July/August of … Read more