Dan Shea
PDFlib GmbH founder and head Thomas Merz is a long-time expert in the areas of PostScript and PDF. Planet PDF recently caught up with the seasoned speaker and author to talk about PDF, the path that's taken him to this point, and what the future holds for the format.
Developer
September 08, 2004
Dave Wraight
Using some simple JavaScript, it's possible to determine a whole range of version information from the PDF Viewing Component inside a Web Browser. If you need to, say, determine which version of the Acrobat Browser Plugin your web visitors were using, Dave Wraight explains how.
Developer
September 01, 2004
Dan Shea
Planet PDF's Dan Shea recently caught up with Independent System Integrators CEO Roelof Janssen in person to establish his views on Acrobat 6 Professional, the state of PDF prepress and the future.
Dave Wraight
What would the IT industry be without user documentation and tech books? Dave Wraight takes a look at one such text: Carl Young's latest book, "Adobe Acrobat 6.0: Getting Professional Results From Your PDFs".
John Clifford
Part two of two in John Clifford's "PDF and Soft Proofing" series. Acrobat 6 Professional has a number of preflight tools that come in very handy during the softproofing phase of your print workflow. John Clifford outlines how to take advantage of these tools during the softproofing phase.
John Clifford
Part one of two in John Clifford's "PDF and Soft Proofing" series. Acrobat 6's enhanced feature set allows for traditional proofreading marks to be used in "soft" PDF proofs. John Clifford explains how to make the best use of Acrobat to save paper without alienating your proofreaders.
Wendy Halderman and Ted Padova
In this tutorial, Ted Padova and Wendy Halderman explain how to best use the features of Acrobat 6 Professional to create a self-running multi-media kiosk for use with displays such as tradeshow exhibits.
Maureen P. Goulder
Maureen P. Goulder of the IRS outlines some of the steps taken to implement PDF accessibility at one of the World's most active PDF forms processors -- the US Internal Revenue Service.
Dan Shea
Taking a break from keeping designers and printers on speaking terms, Practicalia principal Claudia McCue takes some time out to talk PDF.
Dan Shea
Taking a break from applause-filled product demonstrations, Image Solutions, Inc. CEO Jinsoo Kim takes some time out to talk PDF.
Technical writer and Planet PDF Forum sage Doug Alford takes some time out to talk PDF.
Dan Shea
Seybold Seminars Amsterdam Conference Chair shares his thoughts on PDF, conferences, and the future.
Dan Shea
Chair of the CGATS and ISO taskforces along with being CEO of CIP4, PDF luminary Martin Bailey takes some time out to talk PDF.
Dave Wraight
Another underused tool in the Javascript toolkit is the Report Object. The object provides a mechanism to create detailed reports on almost anything that comes to mind. For example we could generate a report on the annotations in a document, detailing their type, content, destination (if any), author, date of creation etc. We could also generate a report across a whole series of PDF files using the Batch Processing function.
Dan Shea
Celebrated author and speaker, ZIPCON Media and pdfnews.de head Bernd Zipper, takes some time out of his busy schedule to talk PDF.
