Keynote – Around the Blocks

The future: re-imagining the best possible definition of PDF

The PDF specification is critical to the PDF technology ecosystem and its stakeholders. “The spec” is the “law” that defines what a valid PDF file must be. While PDF does not have a reference implementation, the common practice of relying on reverse-engineering the work of others, or examining PDFs “from the wild” tends to lead … Read more

Is Digital Transformation the end of PDF?

The concept of a digital document in PDF format has been around since the first versions of Adobe’s product in the 1990’s. Since its publication as an open standard in 2008, the format has become ubiquitous to documents worldwide and is often referred to as the “digital paper” of our time. One finds its use … Read more