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

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How to make a PDF file manually

PDF Files are very complex files and we always recommend you use a library such as JPedal when working with them. But it is...
Mark Stephens
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How to edit PDF files using Incremental Updates

Mark has previously written about how to edit PDF files by adding a second reference table, and Daniel made a whole series on making...
Sam Howard
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Where do your PDF objects start in a PDF…

In theory this is a really easy question to answer for non-Compressed PDF files. There is a reference table to all the PDF objects...
Mark Stephens
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No Startxref found in last 1024 bytes opening file…

A PDF file contains a couple of key pointers. One of them is a pointer to the start of the table which describes the...
Mark Stephens
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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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