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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 19, 2021 |
Print workflow and metadata standards are used to communicate the intended appearance, processing steps, or job tickets for printed products through the use of existing PDF features.
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 |
The ISO 15930 family of standards define PDF/X, which support the graphic arts and professional printing sectors.
July 14, 2021 |
ISO 19444 specifies an XML format for representing forms data and annotations in ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0). It is the XML equivalent of FDF.
July 14, 2021 |
ISO 21757-1 defines the ECMAScript API for automating and interacting with the 2D and 3D content in PDF 2.0 documents.
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 …
March 16, 2021 |
This free application note summarizes precisely where PDF creators should add XMP metadata to PDF 2.0 objects, and thus where PDF 2.0 processors should search for it.
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.
March 18, 2020 |
To help implementers locate the latest information, the PDF Association maintains a page of links to current versions of documents normatively referenced from ISO 32000-2:2020.
October 26, 2018 |
The Associated Files feature allows PDF 2.0 writers to provide additional information related to a PDF 2.0 object in a standardized and interoperable machine-readable manner.