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

Make Your Own PDF – Part 2b: Create your…

In the previous article of this series, we learn to use a text editor to structure and create a PDF file.  The only problem...
Daniel
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Make your own PDF file – Part 2: Structure…

Before we can start hacking together our own simple PDF file, a quick look at the high level structure of a PDF is in...
Daniel
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Understanding the PDF File format series

We have been publishing a series of articles entitled Understanding the PDF file format. In each article we try to take a specific PDF...
Mark Stephens
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Why can’t I just open and edit a PDF…

People sometimes try to edit a PDF file by opening the file in a text editor. This very rarely works for 3 reasons. Firstly,...
Mark Stephens
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What does an OCR PDF file contain?

What is an OCR PDF file? Some PDF files are generated from scanning in pages as images, and these have their own unique quirks....
Mark Stephens
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