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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 // April 22, 2021 |
The Matterhorn Protocol, a free publication, identifies all possible ways to fail PDF/UA-1.
July 15, 2021 |
ISO 32000 is the family of ISO standards that defines the core PDF specification for both PDF 1.7 and PDF 2.0.
July 14, 2021 |
RFC 8118 defines the application/pdf Media Type and provides an overview of PDF fragment identifiers.
April 26, 2021 |
This page provides external links to legacy Adobe PDF references and errata, as well as the ISO 32000 family of standards. PDF Version Year Reference Documents Adobe PDF 1.0 1993 Portable Document Format Reference Manual Version 1.0 (ISBN 0–201–62628–4) Adobe …
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 |
The Solution Agent is a free service for the industry to provide organizations and individuals with a unique, vendor-neutral platform to begin their search
September 5, 2019 |
PDF Declarations facilitate a machine-readable notification that a PDF file (and/or its contents) conform to a given 3rd party specification.
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.
May 30, 2019 |
PDF Association members showcase the diversity of electronic document solutions in “PDF Products & Services 2019”.