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 Convert PDF co-ordinates to Java co-ordinates

How do Java co-ordinates work? Java is a top, left system, which means 0,0 is in the top, left corner of the screen with...
Chris Wade
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Make your own PDF file – Part 5: Path…

This is part of a series on How to make your own PDF files. As shown in one of my Part 3: DIY Blank...
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Make your own PDF file. Part 4: Hello World…

This is part of a series on How to make your own PDF files. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth I talked about the...
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Make your own PDF file – Part 3: DIY…

This is part of a series on How to make your own PDF files. Brace yourself!  For you could soon be the proud owner...
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PDF Text extraction – Why can I not extract…

Every so often people send us files and ask why we cannot extract the text from them – I mean we can view the...
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Make Your Own PDF – Part 2b: Create your…

This is part of a series on How to make your own PDF files. In the previous article of this series, we learn to...
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