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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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. This was done...
Kieran France
2 min read

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
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How to generate a PDF file

Last time, we showed you how to write your own PDF file. This is useful for understanding the complexities of PDF files (and why...
Mark Stephens
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How to make a PDF file manually

PDF Files are very complex files and we always recommend you use a library such as JPedal when working with them. But it is...
Mark Stephens
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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
1 min read