Invented by Adobe Systems over 20 years ago, the Portable Document Format (PDF) is now an open standard for electronic document exchange maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). When you convert documents, forms, graphics, and web pages to PDF, they look just like they would if printed.

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What are Appearance Streams in PDF files?

AP Streams At IDR Solutions this month I have spent time re-coding our AP Streams code for our PDF parser in the JPedal Java...
Zain
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How to create or edit Annotations in a PDF…

This articles shows you how to create and edit Annotations in a PDF file using the JPedal Swing Viewer. If you are looking to...
Rob
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Annotations in PDF Files, what are they and why…

Annotations are additional objects that can be added to a document. They help to provide clarification to its content or to expand upon what...
Kieran France
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A timely lesson on why it is a bad…

At IDR Solutions whilst working on some files we found we had a very good example last week to show why it is a...
Mark Stephens
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Understanding the PDF File Format: Document and Page level

In my latest article on “Understanding the PDF File Format”, I want to to give you a better understanding of how a PDF file is...
Mark Stephens
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Is the PDF file format Open and Free?

One of my pet annoyances on forums is the number of people who think that the PDF file format is a proprietary format. So...
Mark Stephens
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