204 Stories by Mark Stephens
A PDF file contains a couple of key pointers. One of them is a pointer to the start of the table which describes the... The best way to identify a PDF file is to scan the first line of the file. In theory the first line of a... TL;DR Multiple trailers allow for Incremental Updates in PDFs. New changes (data/objects) are appended to the file end, preventing a full rewrite. Each trailer... As part of our TrueType to OpenType font conversion (we need this for PDF to HTML5 conversion to ensure fonts display on all browsers),... Developers hoping to extract content from PDF documents whilst maintaining the structure of the text should follow this tutorial. Some (but not all) PDF... Java has a print mechanism called Java Print Services. In most cases this works brilliantly, but beware the use of transparency in anything you... 