PDF developers’ digest
The PDF Association collects new posts of interest to software engineers and technical product managers to help drive awareness and development of best-practice guidelines in PDF's implementation.

Anticipating the new Japanese era name, the Unicode Consortium announced its reservation of U+32FF for this purpose. PDF developers should …
What is PAdES? What does it have to do with PDF? What can PAdES do?
New in PDF 2.0, black point compensation (BPC) is a colour management technique allowing for the alignment of the darkest …
The industry-supported PDF/A validator created by an EU project, veraPDF is one of four finalists for the Digital Preservation Award …
The 2nd PDF Week, this event combines in-person PDF Association TWG and LWG meeting with respective meetings of ISO TC …
As part of our focus on building the ecosystem the home of the worldwide PDF technical community invites members and other PDF …
A informative representation of the allowable containment of structure element types as defined in ISO TS 32005.
Together, ISO 18565 and ISO 22550 define an interchange of AFP (Advanced Function Presentation) to PDF and a subset for …
This guide and its companion, Best Practice for creating PDF files for Variable Data Printing – Designer Edition is intended …
This page provides external links to legacy Adobe PDF references and errata, as well as the ISO 32000 family of …