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PDF In-Depth

Technical background to PDF font options

The PDF specification provides many options for the display of textual content and the related extraction of the text content. In this article I will try to highlight the key areas and terms that you will encounter when working under the hood with fonts in PDF files. Key terms that you should take note of are in bold.

What happened to the Portable in PDF?

A huge selling point of PDF has always been that it is not limited to any one echo-system, making document exchange possible no matter the hardware or operating system being used. In this article Rowan Hanna looks at how the portability of PDF is being threatened by crippled-PDFs.

Is EPUB a better e-book format than PDF?

With Apple's recent release of iBooks 2 and a new application called iBooks Author, extra attention is being given to the EPUB file format, a free and open e-book standard by International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Rowan Hanna attempts to answer the question of whether it is a better format for e-books than PDF.

Possible alternative to Acrobat for Mac users

Learning how to manipulate PDFs is critical if you want to efficiently capture and process digital information. Acrobat is the most obvious tool for the job, but the story is a bit more complicated for Mac users. If you don't need all of its features, Acrobat Pro is somewhat pricey, and Acrobat Standard is unavailable for Mac systems. PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson makes a case for his preferred Mac-based Acrobat alternative.

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PDF Tips and Tricks

Download ISO 32000-1 (PDF standard) document for free from Adobe.com

As PDF is an ISO specification anyone is free to develop software that utilizes the PDF format. Usually the specification has to be purchased through the ISO website, but due to a deal deal between ISO and Adobe, the PDF specification can be downloaded for free from the Adobe website.

Convert scanned PDFs to text documents using Google Docs

Converting a scanned PDF to text hasn't always been easy or cheap, but with the recent addition of OCR'ing technology to Google Docs, it is now free and pretty easy to boot. In this article Rowan Hanna takes a closer look at how to convert scanned PDFs to text documents using Google Docs.

Bates-stamping over several sessions

Bates-stamping is important if you want to keep track of documents you produce. If you don't have all of the documents ready at the same time, you'll need to conduct several production runs. In this article, PDFforLawyers.com's Ernest Svenson discusses the related issues and suggests one way to accomplish Bates-stamping over multiple sessions.

Searching for PDFs on the web

Given the sheer amount of content on the web these days, it can be useful to filter results based on file format. In this PDF article, Dan Shea has a quick look at a recently released PDF-only search engine, explains how to find PDFs quickly using Google, and briefly compares the two.

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PDF News

Foxit releases version 2 of embedded PDF software development kit

Foxit Software, the makers of PhantomPDF, has released version 2.0 of Foxit Embedded PDF Software Development Kit (SDK), an PDF SDK for device manufacturers and telecom carriers.

May 15, 2012

Debenu releases version 8.15 of Debenu Quick PDF Library

Debenu, the company behind Debenu PDF Maximus, a powerful solution for batch splitting PDF files, has released version 8.15 of Debenu Quick PDF Library, its popular royalty-free PDF SDK.

April 19, 2012

Debenu releases version 8.14 of Quick PDF Library

Debenu, the company behind Debenu PDF Maximus, a powerful solution for batch stamping PDFs, has released version 8.14 of Quick PDF Library, a comprehensive PDF SDK.

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March 22, 2012

Investintech releases Sonic PDF Creator 3.0

Investintech, the company behind Able2Extract Professional, has released version 3.0 of Sonic PDF Creator, its PDF creation tool.

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