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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Where do your PDF objects start in a PDF…

In theory this is a really easy question to answer for non-Compressed PDF files. There is a reference table to all the PDF objects...
Mark Stephens
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What size is 100% scaling in PDF?

As with the majority of the PDF specification, what determines the physical size of your PDF is very complicated but also very powerful, and...
Leon Atherton
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5 useful Open Source SVG tools

Since we started developing our PDF to SVG converter, I have been getting up to speed on the SVG file Format and investigating useful...
Alex Marshall
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How to access external HTML resources in the GlassFish…

An alternate document root (docroot) allows for a web application to serve requests for certain resources from outside its own docroot. This is a...
suda
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How do Filter and DecodeParms Objects change a PDF…

One of the hardest things I found to get to grips with on the PDF File format was using filters and DecodeParams together. So...
Mark Stephens
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