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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PDF XFA Data Binding and Data Access

In this article I demonstrates some tips and techniques that can be followed while trying to map PDF XFA data to a XFA template....
suda
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Extract Shape information from a PDF file (solving common…

Introduction Welcome to a new series on our blog! We get lots of inquires about solving problems with PDF files so we will be...
Mark Stephens
1 min read

How to draw PDF XFA Forms accurately (in your…

It is a bit of complex task if any attempt is made to try and display XFA forms (by following the XFA specification) in...
suda
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Why are fonts so complicated?

I do a lot of work with fonts, and when I tell people this they often seem surprised – surely there can’t be that...
Sam Howard
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Using OS X’s font validator

Due to a recent problem with a font on OSX, I found myself investigating OSX’s font validator. It actually ships with one which is...
Sam Howard
1 min read

Setting Up an XP Virtual Machine to run I.E…

We recently received a request from a client to convert some PDF files to HTML with BuildVu and test whether they worked correctly in Internet...
Nathan Howard
1 min read