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Featured News
October 2026 by PDF Association staff

The third annual PDF Champion award was delivered during the first day of PDF Week Incheon 2026.
Our Valued Members
axesWord 26.1 introduces an accessibility checker that flags issues directly in Microsoft Word before PDF export, along with improvements for … Read more
The latest release of Adobe PDF Library adds PDF/X-4p and PDF/X-5pg conversion for workflows using external ICC profiles and graphics, … Read more
The new pdfRest Create ZUGFeRD PDF API tool builds and validates ZUGFeRD and Factur-X hybrid invoices, combining a human-readable PDF … Read more
Antenna House Office Server Document Converter V12.0 introduces PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, and PDF/X-4p output for print production workflows.
The September JPedal release adds PDF to PDF/A-3b conversion. It rewrites non-compliant files using a bundled sRGB output intent, reports … Read more
First, video games. Then AI. Now Linux in PDF? | University of Illinois Library wins grant to develop EA-PDF implementations … Read more
Developed by blind accessibility expert Steve Weidel, InkluDocs combines first-hand accessibility expertise, AI and document automation to simplify the creation … Read more
We built PDF/UA validation into Enfocus Switch. PDFix Validation is live in the App Store – drop it in, choose … Read more
This document describes an algorithm for producing conforming HTML from a well-tagged PDF document. HTML was chosen as a derivation … Read more
Actino Software has enhanced Auto-Link, its solution for automatically creating hyperlinks, cross-references and navigation structures in PDF documents. Configurable rules … Read more
Improving the accessibility and usability of a PDF has always required either significant in-house expertise or an expensive outside service. … Read more
Every save rewrites a PDF. What usually survives an ordinary compress or merge is the XMP declaration, not the structure … Read more
Home of the worldwide
PDF technical community


Featured News
October 2026 by PDF Association staff

The third annual PDF Champion award was delivered during the first day of PDF Week Incheon 2026.
Our Valued Members
axesWord 26.1 introduces an accessibility checker that flags issues directly in Microsoft Word before PDF export, along with improvements for … Read more
The latest release of Adobe PDF Library adds PDF/X-4p and PDF/X-5pg conversion for workflows using external ICC profiles and graphics, … Read more
The new pdfRest Create ZUGFeRD PDF API tool builds and validates ZUGFeRD and Factur-X hybrid invoices, combining a human-readable PDF … Read more
Antenna House Office Server Document Converter V12.0 introduces PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, and PDF/X-4p output for print production workflows.
The September JPedal release adds PDF to PDF/A-3b conversion. It rewrites non-compliant files using a bundled sRGB output intent, reports … Read more
First, video games. Then AI. Now Linux in PDF? | University of Illinois Library wins grant to develop EA-PDF implementations … Read more
Developed by blind accessibility expert Steve Weidel, InkluDocs combines first-hand accessibility expertise, AI and document automation to simplify the creation … Read more
We built PDF/UA validation into Enfocus Switch. PDFix Validation is live in the App Store – drop it in, choose … Read more
This document describes an algorithm for producing conforming HTML from a well-tagged PDF document. HTML was chosen as a derivation … Read more
Actino Software has enhanced Auto-Link, its solution for automatically creating hyperlinks, cross-references and navigation structures in PDF documents. Configurable rules … Read more
Improving the accessibility and usability of a PDF has always required either significant in-house expertise or an expensive outside service. … Read more
Every save rewrites a PDF. What usually survives an ordinary compress or merge is the XMP declaration, not the structure … Read more









































