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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Why convert PDF magazines to HTML5? – Part 1.…

Over the last few months, we have been working with several magazines on our PDF to HTML5 converter (stay tuned for lots of interesting...
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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How to identify a PDF file

The best way to identify a PDF file is to scan the first line of the file. In theory the first line of a...
Mark Stephens
49 sec read

JavaScript in PDF to HTML5 Conversion: Introduction

Recently we have begun development on converting the JavaScript contained within PDFs to JavaScript that can be used by any browser browsing the HTML5...
Lyndon Armitage
1 min read

JavaFX vs Java3D: First Impressions

One of the more ‘flashy’ features in our Java PDF Viewer is the ‘PageFlow’ mode. Java3D provides a nice reflective stage with the pages...
Leon Atherton
1 min read

How do Browsers auto reverse the Right to left…

You might have encountered a situation where you tried to read from pdf or other text input streams and writing the raw data into...
suda
1 min read