Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
Last time my colleague Sophia introduced you to PDF files and how much support is there for Java. This week we will be looking at the creation of PDF Files. A PDF file is a complex file format. Originally designed by Adobe, it is now an ISO standard of over 1000 pages. PDF files are…
If you’ve converted your PDF files to HTML5 using our online converter, you may find that you’ll want to alter one of the pages. It could be that you’ve found a spelling mistake, it doesn’t have the right image and you want to change it or you’ve simply come up with something better for that…
The following article is co-authored by George Perry and Simon Lissack, developers at IDR Solutions who work on a variety of projects for the PDF to HTML5 Converter and JPedal Java PDF Library. In this article we’ll show you how to convert your PDF document to a HTML5 version and add an embeddable video to…
This used to be a really easy question to answer – Adobe. The PDF file format was invented by the co-founder of Adobe (John Warnock) 20 years ago and Adobe would usually release new versions every couple of years. The first version was 1.0 and they then increased by a point (1.1, 1.2, etc). Looking…
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 reference table, and Daniel made a whole series on making your own PDF file. I thought it might be fun to put the theory into practise and edit Daniel’s Hello World PDF by…
