Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

PDF File Format

Understanding the PDF File Format: Blend Modes

The PDF File Format includes some very sophisticated features. One of the most interesting ones is the Blend Mode (introduced in PDF version 1.4)....
Mark Stephens
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Book Review – Developing with PDF By Leonard Rosenthol

Did you know that the second line of the PDF is a set of characters to make sure PDF files are treated as binary...
Mark Stephens
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Check if a PDF is valid using the HTML5…

Using the HTML5 File API to validate PDF Files Recently in my own time I have been familiarizing myself with the HTML5 File API....
Lyndon Armitage
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How to edit PDF files using Incremental Updates

Yesterday, Mark wrote about how wrong references tables can be. He’s also previously written about how to edit PDF files by adding a second...
Sam Howard
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Multiple trailers in a PDF file

A PDF file consists of a ‘dump’ of PDF objects and a reference table defining where they are located in the PDF file and...
Mark Stephens
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