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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How to create your own test certificates and keys…

From a practical point of view you need one of two sort of files in order to sign something.  Either a keystore file or...
Daniel
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How to Compare PDF files

Asking how to compare PDF files is a frequent question on the PDF forums. It is important to understand what you are trying to...
Mark Stephens
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What are PDF Object streams?

PDFObject streams are a very useful feature added to the PDF specification from version 1.6 which introduces a new type of PDF object. Until...
Mark Stephens
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Useful PDF tools – pdfedit

10th February 2022 – We have added a new article on the free RUPS viewer, which may be more relevant now. Read our updated...
Mark Stephens
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Make your own PDF file – Part 1: PDF…

This is part of a series on How to make your own PDF files. This series of articles is part of my learning experience...
Daniel
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