Invented by Adobe Systems over 20 years old, 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.
Last week we looked at text handling and structured text in PDF files. This week I will be looking at images in PDFs. One of the most popular features of our Java PDF library, JPedal, is PDF to image conversion. This allows you to convert PDF files to PNG, JPEG or TIFF. Why Convert PDF…
Introduction In my last article, I mentioned how well PDF integrates text along with common issues with text inside PDFs. In this article, I will be more specific as I will be talking about structured text content. I will mention how marked content enables text extraction, how it follows a tree structure, potential issues it may…
Last time we discussed creating PDF Files the hard way and the easy way. In this article, I will be talking about text handling in PDF files. Although the PDF file type is a powerful format for text support, it comes with potential issues which can make them painful to work with. I will start…
Last time, we showed you how to write your own PDF file. This is useful for understanding the complexities of PDF files (and why you really want to use a PDF SDK to create and edit PDF files). Hopefully, we convinced you it was a bad idea…. The easy way to generate a PDF file…
Last time my colleague Sophia introduced you to PDF files and how much support is there for Java. This week we will be looking at the creation of PDF Files. A PDF file is a complex file format. Originally designed by Adobe, it is now an ISO standard of over 1000 pages. PDF files are…
