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 are Embedded CMAP tables defined in a PDF…

Every glyf inside a PDF file can have a display value and a different extraction value. This is useful because often you need to...
Mark Stephens
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What does the ActualText dictionary tag do?

Text is defined in the PDF file format as a display value (normally what you see onscreen) and an extraction value. It is useful...
Mark Stephens
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PDF to HTML conversion – matching PDF page size

A PDF file are designed to be resolution independent – they are defined using resolution independent units so that the page will always appear...
Mark Stephens
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How are Text spaces created in a PDF file?

Did you know that PDF files can actually define spaces in several different ways? Three common ways I have found of representing spaces between...
Kieran France
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How are text links defined in a PDF file?

When you are viewing a PDF file, you may well notice that (like a web page) there are blue clickable links. These are defined...
Mark Stephens
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