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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Brief Overview of Security features offered by the PDF…

As security is an ever present issue we thought we would highlight some security features offered by the PDF file format that can be...
Georgia Ingham
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What is new in PDF Spec 2.0?

After 8 years in the making, PDF 2.0 has finally been released. From new annotations, to digital signatures, to generally making the specification clearer...
Rob
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Improved Shape Rendering with Soft Clipping

With our August release of JPedal we have added a new option to improve the rendering of shapes with our library. JPedal is the...
Kieran France
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What is Marked Content?

What is marked content? Marked Content is the way that semantic structure can be preserved inside PDF files. In this article, I will explain...
Zain
2 min read

What is a PDF file?

IDRSolutions has been PDF Developer libraries since 2003 to Display, View and Convert PDF files. So sometimes take them for granted. Here we try...
Sophia Howard
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How are stacks used in PDF files?

At IDR Solutions I spend much of my time working on the Java PDF Library. I have spent alot of time working with data...
Zain
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