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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Understanding the PDF File Format

We have been working with PDF files since 1999 and built our own software to parse, render, and convert them. In that time we...
Leon Atherton
13 min read

How to convert Office documents to PDF with Microsoft…

This tutorial aims to create a service that can be used to accurately convert Microsoft Office file formats into PDFs. The service works by...
Jacob Lucas
9 min read

How to view PDF objects

TL;DR: Developers working with PDFs can use specialized tools like JPedal, RUPS, or PDFXplorer to inspect internal PDF objects instead of relying on a...
Mark Stephens
4 min read

How to convert a fillable PDF Form to HTML…

Converting a fillable PDF form into a working HTML form usually means one of two things: you want a one-off conversion done in your...
Daniel Warren
3 min read

How PDF forms use JavaScript for validation

This blog post assumes you are aware of PDF forms. If this is a new topic for you, check out our introductory blog post....
Daniel Warren
7 min read

How to Display Fillable PDF forms in a browser

Displaying fillable PDF forms in Chrome (or in any browser) saves a lot of the manual work of filling in forms, scanning them to...
Madalena Reves
3 min read