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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A timely lesson on why it is a bad…

At IDR Solutions whilst working on some files we found we had a very good example last week to show why it is a...
Mark Stephens
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Understanding the PDF File Format: Document and Page level

In my latest article on “Understanding the PDF File Format”, I want to to give you a better understanding of how a PDF file is...
Mark Stephens
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Is the PDF file format Open and Free?

One of my pet annoyances on forums is the number of people who think that the PDF file format is a proprietary format. So...
Mark Stephens
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What Chrome 45 dropping NPAPI Plug-in support means

With the recent news that Google has now killed off NPAPI plugins in Chrome 45, it has left many wondering exactly what NPAPI plugins...
Leon Atherton
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Accessing files from inside NetBeans

At IDR Solutions we are constantly working on adding new functionality and improving our applications. In my previous article “How to write JPEG images...
Sylwia Dorota Kedzia
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