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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Check if a PDF is valid using the HTML5…

Using the HTML5 File API to validate PDF Files Recently in my own time I have been familiarizing myself with the HTML5 File API....
Lyndon Armitage
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How to edit PDF files using Incremental Updates

Mark has previously written about how to edit PDF files by adding a second reference table, and Daniel made a whole series on making...
Sam Howard
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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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