As much as we were looking forward to PDF Days Europe 2020, including celebrating with our colleagues and friends, the coronavirus and related dynamics affecting both speakers and attendees has led us to conclude that …

The Signal, a Library of Congress blog, has a new post about archiving with our favorite format by the Library of Congress’ Kate Murray, the PDF Association’s Duff Johnson, and Kevin De Vorsey of the …

The Standards Support Endowment allows the PDF Association to increase support for standards development, including a new PDF subset specification targeting repurposing of PDF content.

The Hall of Fame is a permanent tribute on to the generous contributions of our events’ top-tier sponsors. These companies make PDF Days and similar events possible.

The agenda of the PDF Days Europe 2020 shows “All dimensions of PDF”.

Visiting the No. 1 PDF event – the PDF Days Europe 2020 – in Berlin? Great! Here are some hotel recommendations and sightseeing tips near the event location (SI Hotel / Google Maps): Hotels: SI …

Are you a PDF end user with a message for the PDF community? Are you a PDF technology innovator with a story to tell? Do you have a vision to share for the future of …

Case studies Whether it’s solving a problem for an individual end user or enabling a cost-savings for a large bank, it’s the use cases themselves that really interest people. Starting now, the PDF Association will …

We’re busy preparing for PDF Days Europe 2020 coming next April, but it’s already time to reward those who plan ahead! Save 150.-€ now at the early bird price of only €229 plus VAT. This offer …

UKAAF’s liaison with the PDF Association will help ensure that PDF technology continues to promote and improve easy readability and conversion of documents for visually-impaired users.

In the late 1990s Karl’s ‘Planet PDF’ created a worldwide PDF community and went on to found successful companies leveraging PDF technology. A warm and generous personality, Karl inspired and encouraged thousands through his energy, …

These vulnerabilities require an attacker to modify an encrypted PDF file, potentially leading to the exfiltration of the document’s contents to an external server. This class of problem is not specific to PDF per se, …

Today the PDF Association publishes a new feature for PDF: a standardized mechanism allowing authors to define and share their own document profiles leveraging PDF technology. ISO-standardized subsets of PDF such as PDF/A, PDF/UA and …

The TWAIN Working Group, a liaison member of the PDF Association, has just announced the release of TWAIN Direct, their next-generation open source image-acquisition technology. As the TWAIN Direct website points out, historically, application developers’ …

SQL Server’s Reporting Services will soon support the ISO standard for accessible PDF.

Event description Agenda Book now! Hotel recommendations PDF Days Europe 2020, the PDF industry’s premiere event, will take place in Berlin on 27 and 28 April. All dimensions of PDF From scanned pages to smart …

In June 2019 the PDF Association held its first Electronic Document Conference in Seattle. The presentations were video-recorded and are now posted for the benefit of those who were unable to attend this event in …

The Open Preservation Foundation, a PDF Association liaison member, has announced the 1.14 release of the open source, industry-supported PDF/A validator, part of OPF’s reference toolset. The latest release includes bug fixes, feature requests and performance enhancements, including …

We interviewed Kenny Swope about his keynote session at the Electronic Document Conference in Seattle, and asked him some questions about Boeing’s digital transformation.

Accessible PDF documents are getting much more imported these days, not only forced by legal regulations. The PDF Association is actively engaged on developing standards in this area, PDF/UA-1 was this first step, PDF/UA-2 is …

As part of the 2019 Electronic Document Conference, the PDF Association has published an industry showcase entitled “PDF Products & Services 2019” featuring 23 PDF Association members. 3D PDF Consortium Adobe Antenna House Artifex axaio …

We’ve made a significant change to members’ news handling on pdfa.org, and we believe members will appreciate the results! Members’ News posts now appear by default alongside all other posts on the main pdfa.org/news landing …

PDF is the most common file format on the Web after HTML, and everyone in the Document Engineering community without exception has to deal with the format in one way or another. Just about everyone …

The sessions at #EDCSEATTLE2019 may be interesting and relevant, but you still have to convince your boss to let you go! A developer (we’ll call him “Sam”) just told us a story about how his …

The educational sessions at #EDC2019 will be led by a wide range of experts from a variety of sectors. From accessibility to ZUGFeRD, there’s lots of interest for anyone working in electronic document technologies.

The Electronic Document Conference is a do-not-miss event for developers,  product managers and technical users creating and leveraging electronic document technology. Learn more! Meet the educational session speakers! Check out the sponsored seminars! Convince your boss …

The PDF Association, the meeting place of the PDF industry, decided to create the Electronic Document Conference for a simple reason. PDF’s relationship with other document-related technologies is expanding. Even in a world that runs …

We’ve done PDF Day events and technical conferences across Europe, in the US, in Australia, and elsewhere. This Electronic Document Conference is the first PDF Association event that’s open to all technologies pertaining to documents. …

To complement existing Working Groups, the Board of Directors has decided to allow the creation of Liaison Working Groups (LWGs) to promote interaction with third-party standards-development communities. LWGs are created to meet specific objectives, typically …

2006: The PDF/A Competence Center A new year brings new things, and 2019 is no exception! There are many exciting new developments under-way for the PDF Association, including a new website and new features to …

Anticipating the new Japanese era name, the Unicode Consortium announced its reservation of U+32FF for this purpose. PDF developers should take note!

The PDF and the User survey is back for a fourth year. This survey is designed to capture the perceptions of users with disabilities who use adaptive technology (AT) when accessing PDF documents.

This Application Note provides technical background to the definition of Associated Files in PDF 2.0. It is intended for developers who want to learn about the Associated Files feature in PDF. The document includes generalized …

The PDF Association has started to overhaul its website, with the first such change being a new search engine, installed on October 24. Visit pdfa.org and check it out!

The PDF Techniques Accessibility Summit’s objective is to establish a broad-based understanding of how PDF files should be tagged for accessibilty. It’s an opportunity to focus on establishing a common set of examples of accessible …

The typical adoption curve for PDF technologies until approximately 2007 tended to track with that of the original PDF developer. Since then the marketplace has shifted; it’s no longer clear that Adobe drivesPDF feature support …

New in PDF 2.0, black point compensation (BPC) is a colour management technique allowing for the alignment of the darkest color in the data’s color space with the darkest colour supported by the display device …

Dietrich von Seggern, Managing Director of callas software, took part in this year’s eighteenth ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, DocEng, in Halifax, Canada. Read his personal review!

The industry-supported PDF/A validator created by an EU project, veraPDF is one of four finalists for the Digital Preservation Award 2018. The awards ceremony will be held on 29 November in Amsterdam, on World Digital Preservation …

PDF Processing Steps allows packaging and product developers and designers to specify post-print workflow components with a PDF file in a language-independent, vendor-neutral way.

ActivePDF, the leading provider of smart PDF automation technologies and digital transformation solutions, announces the new release and availability of their browser-based, free PDF viewer and editor for all at Reader-Plus.com. With Reader-Plus.com, users simply …

The Future of Email Archives report calls for the development of email archiving specifications leveraging PDF.

The PDF Techniques Accessibility Summit will identify best-practices in tagging various cases in PDF documents. Questions to be addressed will likely include: the legal ways to tag a nested list, the correct way to caption …

The US Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching a SafeDocs project to develop methods and tools for format validation and conversion to trusted forms.

On July 23, 2018 alone, three distinct announcements of PDF 2.0 support from Adobe, Agfa and OneVision appeared in your correspondent’s inbox. Together with previous such announcements, it’s clear that the PDF industry is embracing …

callas software explains in his recent blog, how organizations can map document structures with PDF/A-3.

You missed the PDF Days Europe 2018? Never mind! Here you can find the slides and video recordings of all 32 stunning sessions!

The world has changed since 1993. PDF, introduced 25 years ago today, has become the dominant final-form electronic document format on the planet.

The ISO committee for PDF/A committee could see into the future. 5 years into the future, to be exact.

Catherine Andersz of PDFTron Systems, Alaine Behler of iText Software and Peter Wyatt, ISO Project Leader for ISO 32000 enrich the newly elected board of the PDF Association.

“PDF Products & Services 2018” is now available for download! This volume showcases PDF Association members highlighting the diversity of their offerings.

Richard Cohn, Principal Scientist at Adobe and the co-author of PDF 1.0, gave the opening keynote at the PDF Days Europe 2018.

René Treuber, Product Manager of axaio software, will be hosting a presentation titled “Introducing ISO standards for PDF “processing steps” and “print product metadata”” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. In this Interview he gives …

Roman Toda, CTO of Normex, will be hosting a presentation titled “Encryption with PDF 2.0” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. In this interview he gives some background information about it.

Catherine Andersz (PDFTron), Richard Cohn (Adobe), Harald Grumser (Compart), Carsten Heiermann (Foxit) and Duff Johnson (PDF Association) present their ideas for the next 25 years of PDF.

Dietrich von Seggern, CEO of callas software, will be hosting a presentation titled “Text and fonts in PDF” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. In this Interview he gives some background information about it.

Ulrich Isermeyer, Sr. Business Development Manager, Adobe Systems GmbH, will be hosting a presentation titled “The power of 3D PDF” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. In this Interview he gives some background information about …

Our Executive Director Duff Johnson gives some personally information about his experience with the “PDF universe” and much more.

Kevin Willems, Software Engineer at iText Software, will be hosting a presentation titled “Redaction in electronic documents” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. In this interview Kevin gives some background information about it.

Vel Genov, Senior Product Manager at Datalogics, will be hosting a presentation titled “Common PDF Interoperability Concerns” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. In this interview Vel gives some background information about it.

Matt Kuznicki, CPO of Datalogics, will be hosting a presentation titled “PDF 2.0 Updates to Rendering and Color Processing” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. In this interview Matt gives some background information about it.

Joris Schellekens, software developer at iText, will be hosting a presentation titled “Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology for documents” at the PDF Days Europe 2018. In this interview Joris gives some background information about it.

Neil Pitman, Managing Director of Aquaforest, gives some information about his presentation “GDPR and PDF – Are You Ready?” at the PDF Days Europe 2018.

Here are five reasons why industry professionals in marketing, business development and sales should attend at PDF Days Europe 2018.

To maximize both the opportunities and the benefits of testing, the third PDF 2.0 interop workshop makes it possible for developers of PDF consumer products to ask for and discuss test cases addressing specific PDF …

Google users wondering how to convert… usually want to convert to PDF.

This year’s PDF Days Europe will mark a double anniversary: 25 years of PDF and ten years of the format’s status as an ISO standard. The keynote speech reflecting on PDF’s history will be given …

Dietrich von Seggern, CEO of callas software, gives some information about his presentation “PDF’s ISO-standardized subsets: a tour” at the PDF Days Europe 2018.

At the PDF Europe 2018 Joris Schelekens from iText will be hosting a presentation titled “Structure Recognition for Information Retrieval and Layout” – what’s that about?”. In this interview he gives some background information about …

PDF ISO standards fulfill certain requirements and is preferred in different sectors accordingly but they are not mutually exclusive

PDF Days Europe, the annual PDF technology education event, will take place from 14 to 16 May 2018 in Berlin at the Hotel Steglitz International. Of the many good reasons for developers to participate, here …

Motherboard, which “…travels the world to uncover the tech and science stories that define what’s coming next for this quickly-evolving planet of ours.” has noticed that PDF is everywhere… and may be the world’s “most …

PDF Days Europe, the annual PDF technology education event, will take place from 14 to 16 May 2018 in Berlin at the Hotel Steglitz International. Of the many good reasons for users to participate, here …

Slate magazine reports today that Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s recent indictment of Paul J. Manafort and Richard W. Gates reveals that at least part of Manafort’s serious problem stems from his lack of basic …

Following the success of our previous interop workshops in Cambridge, England and Boston, Massachusetts, the 3rd PDF 2.0 Interop Workshop takes place on May 16, 2018 as part of the post-conference program immediately following this …

The PDF Asso­ci­a­tion is sur­veying its mem­bers (link requires a login to the members only intranet) on the cur­rent and prospec­tive state of the mar­ket­place for PDF/A solutions. The sur­vey con­sists of 10 multiple-choice ques­tions requir­ing …

On Wednesday, May 16, 2018, directly following PDF Days Europe, the PDF Days Post-Conference offers a variety of workshops on PDF 2.0 Interop or PDF/UA.

Fittingly for the tenth anniversary of PDF’ becoming an ISO standard, standardization will play a significant role this year. The focus will be on recent developments, with an eye on the future. The agenda also …

The No. 1 PDF event – the PDF Days Europe 2018 in Berlin? Great! Here are some hotel recommendations and sightseeing tips near the event location (SI Hotel).

Richard Cohn, Principal Scientist at Adobe, one of the two co-authors of the original PDF specification in the era of Acrobat 1.0 gives the keynote on 25 years of PDF during the PDF Europe 2018.

Over 260 attendees from 40+ federal and state agencies The latest PDF Day event was held on January 29th at the National Archives Building in Washington DC. With a record-breaking number of attendees, the event …

The PDF Association returns to Washington DC next Monday, January 29, 2018 for PDF Day DC, a single day packed with 18 sessions in six interest-areas; Accessible PDF, Archiving with PDF, PDF in Engineering, Output, …

The PDF Association started in 2006 as the “PDF/A Competence Center”. The mission was to identify – and thereby establish – a common interpretation of the PDF/A-1 specification. With that accomplished through meetings open to …

Earlier in 2017 both the US Library of Congress and NARA joined the PDF Association as Liaison members, an option available to non-profit and governmental organizations interested in contributing to the development and best-practice of PDF technology. As …

ActivePDF, a global leader in award-winning PDF automation software, recently announced a major enhancement release of the company’s flagship product Toolkit and the addition of Toolkit Expansion Pack.

PDF 1.7, the final Adobe edition of the PDF specification, was published in 2006, and converted to an ISO standard in 2008. Since then, Working Group 8 of ISO TC 171 SC 2 has worked …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The November 2017 updates for Acrobat DC, now available from Adobe, include some significant news for those who pay attention to ISO standards-adoption. This release, 18.xx for those on the “Continuous” track, includes the following, …

Our API can easily verify a PDF against a number of profiles, including all the current variations of PDF/A and PDF/UA.

PDF is PDF because files produced with one vendor’s software can be read using a different vendor’s software with no loss of fidelity. Interoperability is key to our industry. The PDF Association is a international …

Writing in Government Computing News, PDF Executive Director Duff Johnson highlights NARA’s recently-published draft strategic plan and its stated objective of eliminating paper as a medium for records by the end of 2022. He points …

NARA (The National Archives and Records Administration) is the final depository for the long-term records generated by all other agencies of the U.S. Federal Government. The agency has a key role in preserving the cultural …

This PDF Association’s end-user educational event is intended for the managers, executives and professionals developing institutional strategies for managing electronic documents. The proper and best use of electronic documents is an increasingly important subject, especially …

For NARA and (in principle) for all US Federal agencies, paper is officially going obsolete (for records-keeping) in 2022.

Federal agencies will advocate for cultural heritage communities in a vendor-neutral environment Berlin, Germany. The National Archives and the Library of Congress have announced that they have joined the PDF Association as Partner Organizations of the …

PDF/raster, a strict subset of the PDF format, was designed for storing, transporting and exchanging multi-page raster-image documents, especially scanned documents. PDF/raster provides the portability of PDF while offering the core functionality and support of …

Nowadays people work from multiple devices expecting their data to be available everywhere. Teams need to be able to collaborate no matter where their members are located and what devices they are using. App developers …

With the release of PSPDFKit for Web 2017.5, we are introducing an all new standalone mode. Previously, PSPDFKit for Web only supported server-backed deployments. As of today, you now have the option of deploying PSPDFKit …

The latest release of veraPDF, the industry-supported PDF/A validator, is now available for download.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has announced the publication of ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0), the latest version of the PDF specification.

Replacing AIIM at the US TAG Administrator and secretary for ISO TC 171 SC 2, the 3D PDF Consortium, a PDF Association Partner Organization, recently announced that the organization has been approved by the American …

The Portable Document Format (commonly known as “PDF”) is a file format developed in the early 1990s as a way to share computer documents, including text formatting and inline images.

The PDF Association, a not-for-profit organization designed to foster universal public standards for PDF technology, today announced the publication of Technical Note 0010, a set of 29 exhaustively researched and peer-reviewed resolutions to a variety …

Creation of PDF/UA and PDF/A-3a documents.

2017 marks a record number of attendees / Experts shared fully-grounded wisdom on PDF standards across the two-day event Berlin. With over 200 attendees, this year’s PDF Days Europe in Berlin was a significant success …

Version 1.6 features the ability to check for updated software, among other enhancements and corrections.

Australia adopts the complete set of PDF standards as Australian National Standards.

About 35 informative sessions across a wide range of topics, including the next-generation PDF project. Within the video frames you can use the red “play” button to get a short impression of the talk or …

With more than 200 participants, this year’s PDF Days Europe was the largest to-date. Early feedback from attendees makes clear that it was also a great success.

More than 150 attendees have registered for the PDF Days Europe 2017 so far!

We would like to inform you that an update version of MadeToTag is immediately available. The main enhancements of version 1.8.083 are the integration of a new pdfEngine, which delivers a list of optimizations and …

The innovation that the company was built upon gives users the ability to convert any kind of print format to any other kind of print format.

How will the PDF 2.0 interop workshops work? This article explains the process of building the test-matrix to establish possibilities for pair-wise testing.

With over 35 informative sessions across a wide range of topics spanning the future of PDF technology, this year’s PDF Days is more relevant than ever.

It is now proven that the contents of a PDF hashed with SHA-1 can be changed without invalidating the signature, with significant consequences for older software implementations.

With over 35 informative sessions across a wide range of topics, including next-generation PDF, this year’s PDF Days event is especially relevant as we look forward into the future of PDF technology.

You will visit the No. 1 PDF event – the PDF Days Europe in Berlin? Great! Here are some hotel recommendations and sightseeing tips near the event location.

On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, directly following PDF Days Europe, the PDF Days Post-Conference offers a variety of various workshops on next-generation PDF, PDF/UA and the Foxit User Group event.

With over 35 informative sessions across a wide range of topics, including the next-generation PDF project, this year’s PDF Days event is especially relevant as we look forward into the future of PDF technology.

Berlin, 23 January 2017. After seeing a record number of attendees last year, the 2017 PDF Days will again be held in Berlin. The PDF Association invites interested parties to the Hotel Steglitz International for …

The veraPDF consortium has released version 1.0 release of its veraPDF software for validating all parts and conformance levels of ISO 19005 (PDF/A). This release is required by PREFORMA in order to initiate Phase 3 …

Postscript took off like a rocket, but PDF took its time. Many people wondered “What’s it for?” In this video, Professor Brailsford recounts his 1996 experience with one such person – a US immigration officer…

This survey was designed for people with disabilities using adaptive technology. Every attempt has been made to ensure that the survey is accessible. It has been tested by people who use adaptive technology. There is …

PDF/E Competence Center promote awareness of the ISO standard for engineering supporting the secure creation, exchange and use of engineering documents.

This educational event is designed to help CIOs, document management experts and electronic content policy-makers come to grips with ISO-standardized PDF technology. With special focus on archiving and accessibility, PDF Day Australia is a unique …

The successful PDF Days Europe will be held in Berlin again. Across two days, you’ll be able to choose from German- and English- language presentations, user reports and workshops in order to assemble your own …

You missed the PDF Days Europe 2016? Never mind!

My interview with Nikos Andronikos, who chairs the W3C’s SVG Working Group (WG), about SVG and PDF.

Governments have a special interest in PDF. The PDF Association helps them understand and address PDF technology in policies and regulations.

This year, PDF Days Europe is well-established as the world’s top PDF event. Over 150 attendees came to Berlin for the two-day conference – more than ever before.

I’m honored to have been elected as chairman of the PDF Association’s board of directors in June 2016. Here, I’d like to introduce myself and discuss my philosophy on how the PDF Association can best …

About 150 attendees from all over the world visited the PDF Days Europe 2016 in Berlin.

Browsers are taking over document viewing. Even so, minimum support for PDF viewing should mean full support for PDF rendering

For those unable to come to Berlin to attend the «PDF Days Europe 2016», several sessions of the event will be streamed live over the PDF Association Channel on YouTube. Simply click on the respective …

PDF 2.0 is nearly finished. Now is an excellent time to help the ISO committee understand your ideas for the future of PDF.

Many organizations use PDF merely to offload printing to end-users. They miss out, because not only does PDF offer a potent platform for forms workflows, PDF includes unique capabilities that aren’t available in HTML.

The variety in screen sizes and shapes is a challenge for web technology in general, and for PDF in particular. Even so, many PDF vendors are delivering technology for the n-screen world.

PDF and EPUB meet different needs in different ways. Neither can replace the other.

The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) has awarded its Thomas Bagg Standards Award to Duff Johnson.

Matt Kuznicki, Chief Technical Officer at Datalogics, tells us about his plans for the PDF Days Europe 2016 conference in Berlin.

iText creator Bruno Lowagie tells us about his plans for the PDF Days Europe 2016 conference in Berlin.

For ECM professionals, PDF deserves your attention to maximize utility… and minimize risk.

As in previous years, the PDF Days Europe will act as a link between users and developers.

The scale of this year’s PDF Days Europe event allows us to focus on several distinct areas of interest.

The ISO standard for accessible PDF files costs 88 Swiss Francs. As of March 25 it’s also available from AIIM for $15 USD.

June is the best time of the year to visit Berlin. The air is sweet, the trees are in bloom and the currywurst is hot! On June 14-15, Berlin is also the center of the …

This year, the successful PDF Days Europe will be held in Berlin. Across two days, you’ll be able to choose from nearly 50 German- and English- language presentations, user reports and workshops in order to …

This year, the established and popular PDF Days Europe will be held on June 14 and 15, 2016, in the world-class cultural city of Berlin. To kick off proceedings, the PDF Days Pre-Conference will be …

The new Chairman of the PDF/E Competence Center discusses the origin of the new organization in support of engineering applications for PDF technology.

An R&D engineer at heart and an active PDF software developer, Peter brings new energy to the Project Leader role.

PDF/VT Application Notes available

Download the first public draft of the PDF Structure Elements Best Practice Guide today!

The coming year means more PDF files, more PDF creators supporting PDF/UA and leveraging PDF/A-3. The space continues to grow, and it’s going to grow even faster with PDF 2.0.

These videos total over 20 hours of high-quality technical education and perspective, from panel sessions to technical deep-dives.

The popular PDF Days Europe will be even more attractive. It’s not just the new location in the metropolis of Berlin, it’s also owing to the enhanced event concept.

Use our new express form to publish your posts on pdfa.org.

The TWAIN Working Group (TWG) announced its partnership with the PDF Association.

With a month remaining before the doors open for the PDF Accessibility Days in Copenhagen on November 12-13, 2015 , I got in touch with Duff Johnson, who will speak at the conference about “How …

A few weeks ahead of the PDF Accessibility Days 2015 in Copenhagen, Olaf Drümmer interviewed Ted Page, who will be speaking at the conference, about accessible PDF and school exams.

Taken together, PDF’s features describe a format of such flexibility and power that it will define the essential “electronic document” concept forever.

Most browsers now support some basic PDF features natively. What’s next for PDF on the web?

Platform technologies provide the infrastructure for the applications end users actually use, whether some kind of cloud or simply leveraging something as prosaic as… PDF.

PDF Technical Conference 2015: With over 40 presentations and podium discussions, conference attendees will benefit from intensive technical education on a wide range of high-profile subjects, including mobile and cloud applications

This article highlights three areas in which PDF can help developers offer powerful new options to their product and project managers.

You missed the PDF Days Europe 2015? Never mind! Overview of the video recordings of the PDF Days Europe 2015

How search engine and other application developers can enhance their PDF-related functionality by fully supporting ISO 32000, the ISO specification for PDF.

A brief introduction to PDF 2.0, the first major revision of the PDF specification since 2006.

The PDF Technical Conference 2015 is a unique opportunity to learn about the diverse capabilities and ecosystem of the ISO standardized Portable Document Format.

What is PDF/A? What does PDF/A offer, and how can I access that value? Answers to these and other questions are provided.

2015’s PDF Days Europe in Cologne has proved a complete success for another year running

The Document Strategy Forum 2015 is all about electronic documents, but not so much about PDF.

A set of Venn diagrams explaining the relationship between WCAG 2.0, PDF/UA and the recent Section 508 refresh NPRM.

Following a successful premiere in 2014, the second edition of PDF Days Europe is about to start. On the 8th and 9th of June 2015, participants will get to know a range of solutions and …

Can’t get enough of PDF? – Stay in Cologne!

A biplane is less complex than an airliner, but that’s not a good reason to travel by Sopwith Camel! So it is with TIFF and PDF.

Building on the previous success of last year’s event, PDF Days Europe 2015 will begin with “Educational Day”. Assemble your own personalised information pack- age out of a range of PDF-related subjects. Come to Cologne …

Videos from the December, 2014 PDF Day events in Washington DC and New York City.

Nitro partnered with the PDF Association to conduct a survey of 1,200+ knowledge workers to learn more about the ways they use documents.

The ability to embed any file format into a PDF/A-3 file makes use of PDF’s ‘container’ principle. This feature also has the potential to vastly improve the way we work with documents. For example, source …

The main challenge when archiving emails is the absolute menagerie of different file formats a business has to deal with.

PDF files have long proven popular for invoices and other documents transacted during routine business. ZUGFeRD has the potential to take invoicing beyond the printed page and into an future.

Industries which exchange large volumes of documents with their customers – financial services, insurance, energy and others – are currently making extensive changes to their communications processes.

Although PDF technology has enormous potential in mobile devices, tagged PDF is still ignored by screen readers on every mobile platform.

Naturally, many memory institutions use JHOVE’s PDF module on a daily basis for digital long term archiving. Learn about the extent to which JHOVE’s PDF validation tools can be used for risk management and quality …

LEAD Technologies is pleased to announce the release of LEADTOOLS Version 19. Headlining this release are the new Document Viewer and Document Converter frameworks for .NET and HTML5/JavaScript. Combined with significant updates and additions throughout …

How can you benefit from PDF Day? Join IT managers and executives in Washington DC on December 10 and 11 to learn all about how PDF can reduce costs and improve business processes across the …

PDF is the big gun in the war on paper. It’s time the ECM industry gave up its TIFF based model for electronic documents and embraced the Portable Document Format.

With the PDF Days, taking place in the USA for the first time, the PDF Association is offering IT executives and managers an outstanding opportunity to gain an understanding of the capabilities and true power …

As a fixed-format electronic record PDF has no real competition, but few law-firms systematically leverage PDF to reduce risks and help everyone work as a team.

Although they are utterly reliant on PDF, modern financial services institutions still leverage only the most rudimentary fraction of PDF’s capabilities.

Mere publication of a specification doesn’t make a standard: it takes a community. Of course, it also helps if the customers like the product, and use it more and more.

Government requirements for electronic documents include considerations most businesses don’t need to address. From long-term archivability to accessibility, authenticity, redaction and more, government organizations think about documents a little differently.

At PDF Day in Washington DC and New York City, CIOs will get the information they need about PDF/A-3, the powerful subset of PDF with the potential to shorten payment cycles, reduce administrative costs and …

PDF Day brings CIOs together to learn how PDF support for digital signatures, automated invoicing, online collaboration and accessibility take the format far beyond a faithful rendition of a printable page. PDF is familiar, but …

Fundamentally, PDF/A is all about reducing risks. Learn more about the archival subset of the world’s chosen electronic document format at PDF Day in Washington DC and New York City.

PDF Day in New York is 18 fast-paced educational sessions packed with non-commercial information for IT executives on a range of PDF technology related topics.

PDF Day in Washington DC is 18 fast-paced educational sessions packed with non-commercial information for IT executives on a range of PDF technology related topics.

The US Committee for PDF/UA has published its second Technical Implementation Guide. This document focuses on ISO 32000-1.

Berlin/Cologne, 04 July 2014. The PDF Association has successfully brought to life a new user-focused event in the form of the “PDF Days Europe 2014”. In mid-June, 160 participants came to Cologne to seize the …

Berlin, 04 July 2014. PDF Association has significantly expanded its board of directors. The now ten-member-strong committee is composed of representatives from leading forces within the PDF industry, five from Europe and five from North …

The Matterhorn Protocol 1.02 is now available as a free download!

Evolving Document-Centric Processes with Advanced Rendering to PDF in Life Science · Meeting Document Requirements in Life Sciences: The Art of Avoiding the Resubmit · About PDF Association Member Adlib · New members: WinHouse Software, WingArc …

The 1.01 update to the Matterhorn Protocol is now available for free download.

Since its beginnings in 1993, PDF technology has become a gigantic ecosystem with thousands of different providers. Originally a proprietary file format, today PDF is a critical part of global IT infrastructure used in almost …

This month LEAD’s white paper is an extremely practical one. In fact, we even had a few conversations with customers at last week’s HIMSS conference about this very subject. Document archival has been around for quite a …

«PDF Days in Europe 2014» will start with the Educational Day – three tracks of presentations on a wide range of PDF topics, including introductory sessions for end-users and technical updates for developers and integrators. The Solutions Day will …

The PDF Association manages LinkedIn groups for PDF, PDF/A, PDF/UA, PDF/E, PDF/X and PDF/VT.

The US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the agency responsible for long-term federal government records, has published NARA Bulletin 2014-004, their Transfer Guidance for federal agencies.

Longtime chairman of the US Committee for PDF/UA, Duff Johnson maintains a page listing software providing PDF/UA functionality as well as an updated history of PDF/UA.

Accessibility isn’t easy. For implementers and product managers alike who are responsible for supporting accessibility in PDF, this article describes how the Matterhorn Protocol can help speed progress towards PDF/UA conformance.

The Swiss non-profit foundation “Access for all” has published the PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC 2) the world’s first tool for verifying PDF documents conform with PDF/UA and are accessible to people with disabilities. The PDF …

“PDF/UA in a Nutshell” will show you just what PDF/UA is. This brochure provides a clear summary of the key facts, the standard’s requirements, the latest developments and the current legal situation regarding PDF accessibility, …

At 20 years of age PDF has remained very cool with customers and end users. Largely immune to the buzz and hype of Internet technologies PDF still dominates the idea of “an electronic document” worldwide.

The Isartor test suite is available from de5.pdfa.org free of charge. It can be used to check PDF validation software and software vendors can use it to “certify” that their products conform in full or …