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 Embed your own data in PDF files

Because of its power and flexibility, the PDF file format is often used for Internal workflows. Sometimes it would be useful to embed your...
Mark Stephens
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How are images displayed in a PDF file?

Images are not stored inside a PDF file as Tiff or PNG or JPG images. They are stored as the binary pixel data along...
Mark Stephens
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Make your own PDF file – Part 2: Structure…

This is part of a series on How to make your own PDF files. Before we can start hacking together our own simple PDF...
Daniel
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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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