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Since we started developing our PDF to SVG converter, I have been getting up to speed on the SVG file Format and investigating useful...

Alex Marshall
Apr 9, 2013 2 min read

An alternate document root (docroot) allows for a web application to serve requests for certain resources from outside its own docroot. This is a...

suda
Mar 28, 2013 1 min read

Ever since we began writing our PDF to HTML5 converter a little over 2 years ago, we have chosen the HTML5 canvas as the...

Leon Atherton
Mar 25, 2013 2 min read

Back in the 1980s, Adobe saw that the existing methods of displaying text digitally – bitmapped fonts – were not up to the task...

Sam Howard
Mar 20, 2013 2 min read

In these articles, we talk about the advantages of converting your PDF documents to HTML5. Each point has a full supporting article with a...

Leon Atherton
Mar 19, 2013 1 min read

One of the hardest things I found to get to grips with on the PDF File format was using filters and DecodeParams together. So...

Mark Stephens
Mar 6, 2013 1 min read