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 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
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How are stacks used in PDF files?

At IDR Solutions I spend much of my time working on the Java PDF Library. I have spent alot of time working with data...
Zain
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What are Appearance Streams in PDF files?

AP Streams At IDR Solutions this month I have spent time re-coding our AP Streams code for our PDF parser in the JPedal Java...
Zain
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How to create or edit Annotations in a PDF…

This articles shows you how to create and edit Annotations in a PDF file using the JPedal Swing Viewer. If you are looking to...
Rob
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Annotations in PDF Files, what are they and why…

Annotations are additional objects that can be added to a document. They help to provide clarification to its content or to expand upon what...
Kieran France
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