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The PDF Association publishes a variety of documents and other resources to help developers, product managers, and others interested in leveraging PDF to meet their business and organizational objectives.
Most publications listed on pdfa.org are developed through our publications process, and are freely available to members and non-members alike.
PDF Association members may access drafts of current and upcoming ISO standards via the members-only intranet.
PDF Association // November 30, 2020 |
Ask the PDF industry! The PDF Association Solution Agent supports of the organization’s ongoing mission to serve the needs of both PDF technology users and PDF industry software, services providers …
February 14, 2021 |
Understanding the problems faced by diverse parsers can be a great learning experience. The “Issue Tracker” corpus of stressful PDF files was originally developed under the DARPA-funded “SafeDocs” program.
December 14, 2020 |
ISO 32000-2:2020 is the current version of the PDF specification. It was developed by the volunteers of ISO TC 171 SC 2 WG 8.
November 30, 2020 |
Ask the PDF industry! The PDF Association Solution Agent supports of the organization’s ongoing mission to serve the needs of both PDF technology users and PDF industry software, services providers and consultants. Previously, those seeking expertise and solutions leveraging PDF …
September 16, 2020 |
The PDF/UA Reference Suite is a resource for software developers and practitioners interested in best-practices for creating tagged and accessible PDF files
May 13, 2020 |
Today, PDF is at the heart of manufacturing and engineering communications. PDF technology supports manufacturing worldwide, conveying ideas, plans, communications, contracts, specifications, contracts… and of course, 2D and 3D drawings and supporting content throughout complex workflows and across corporate, organizational …
March 30, 2020 |
This resource is intended to help implementers stay current on ISO committee work pertaining to PDF technology. It is updated regularly.
March 18, 2020 |
To help implementers stay current the PDF Association maintains a page of links to current versions of documents normatively referenced from ISO 32000-2:202x.
September 5, 2019 |
ISO-standardized subsets of PDF such as PDF/A, PDF/UA and PDF/X already include identification mechanisms. However, in many cases users of PDF files would like to leverage 3rd party standards or other profiles of PDF to meet specific needs. The PDF …
August 24, 2019 |
Videos from the Electronic Document Conference 2019, held in Seattle, WA. The videos are posted on YouTube.
June 11, 2019 |
This document describes an algorithm for producing conforming HTML from a well-tagged PDF document. HTML was chosen as a derivation target because HTML is consumed on all platforms and supported by all major vendors.