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Get ready for U+32FF

PDF Association staff // November 16, 2018
PDF in general News

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



4th annual PDF accessibility survey for AT users

PDF Association staff // November 14, 2018
PDF in general News

The PDF and the User survey is back for a fourth year. This survey is designed to capture the perceptions …



Have we passed ‘peak PDF’?

Duff Johnson // October 31, 2018
PDF in general Article

How do we gain insight into how users’ views of documents are shifting? Google Trends is an increasingly interesting source …



PDF 2.0 Application Note: Associated Files

PDF Association staff // October 26, 2018
PDF 2.0 News

This Application Note provides technical background to the definition of Associated Files in PDF 2.0. It is intended for developers …



New search engine, other improvements coming to pdfa.org

PDF Association staff // October 24, 2018
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The PDF Association has started to overhaul its website, with the first such change being a new search engine, installed …



Participating in the PDF Techniques Accessibility Summit

PDF Association staff // October 10, 2018
Article

The PDF Techniques Accessibility Summit’s objective is to establish a broad-based understanding of how PDF files should be tagged for …



Members supporting PDF features!

PDF Association staff // September 28, 2018
PDF 2.0 PDF/UA Article

The typical adoption curve for PDF technologies until approximately 2007 tended to track with that of the original PDF developer. …



First PDF 2.0 Application Note is published

PDF Association staff // September 21, 2018
PDF 2.0 News

New in PDF 2.0, black point compensation (BPC) is a colour management technique allowing for the alignment of the darkest …



veraPDF is a finalist at the Digital Preservation Awards 2018

PDF Association staff // September 11, 2018
PDF/A News

The industry-supported PDF/A validator created by an EU project, veraPDF is one of four finalists for the Digital Preservation Award …



GWG’s PDF processing steps standard is now published by the ISO

PDF Association staff // August 31, 2018
PDF/X News

PDF Processing Steps allows packaging and product developers and designers to specify post-print workflow components with a PDF file in …



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