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
We have been publishing a series of articles entitled Understanding the PDF file format. In each article we try to take a specific PDF... I see a lot of complaints about the PDF file format on various forums, moaning about it. They tend to focus mainly on 2... What makes writing a PDF parser especially interesting (ie complex) is that the specification is often ambiguous and that PDF is a very complex... I was visiting a client (RandomHouse) yesterday and it struck me that PDF is actually very commonly used inhouse to provide other products and services.... People sometimes try to edit a PDF file by opening the file in a text editor. This very rarely works for 3 reasons. Firstly,... 
