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Is EPUB a better e-book format than PDF?

Rowan Hanna — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Quick PDF Library 8.12 adds native 64-bit support

Dan Shea — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Quick PDF Library's latest upgrade includes a number of improvements for developers. Version 8.12 adds 64-bit support for the Delphi, ActiveX and DLL editions of the SDK, and introduces support for Delphi XE2.

PDF Update: PDF conversions

Dan Shea — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this PDF update, we have a pair of conversion tools; one converts documents to PDF, while the other converts from PDF.

EzPDFlibrary a pirated version of Quick PDF Library

Dan Shea — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Planet PDF has been alerted to the possibility that a pirated version of Debenu's flagship product is being sold under the name "EzPDFlibrary". Debenu reports that it is taking appropriate action, and that it seeks to warn potential customers of the risks.

PDFTron releases PDF SDK for Android and iOS

Karl De Abrew — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

PDFTron Systems has unveiled its new SDK for Android and iOS. PDFNet Mobile PDF SDK is a PDF software development kit for Android, iOS, Windows Mobile and other mobile platforms. It enables developers to build applications for viewing, annotating, creating and manipulating PDF documents on mobile devices.

This week in PDF: A pair of developer updates

Dan Shea — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen the releases of a beta for a PDF developer library, a new SDK for working with PDF on mobile devices and an update to a browser-based PDF viewing and editing solution.

Qoppa to showcase its qPDF Toolkit at AnDevCon II

Rowan Hanna — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Qoppa Software has confirmed its continued commitment to Android marketplace with an announcement to participate at AnDevCon II, the Android Developer Conference of 2011. Qoppa Software will showcase qPDF Toolkit for Android, its general-purpose Android Software Development Kit (SDK) to work with PDF documents.

Debenu releases Quick PDF Library 8.11

Dan Shea — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Debenu, the company behind both Planet PDF and leading Acrobat plug-in developer, ARTS PDF, has released version 8.11 of its stand-alone PDF Library. Quick PDF Library 8.11 boasts a number of new features and improvements, including support for PDF/A-1b-compliant output, AES-256 encryption, TrueType font subsetting, HTML5 renderer output, plain text extraction with natural reading order, PDF417 stacked linear barcodes.

Debenu releases Quick PDF Library 7.25

Dan Shea — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Debenu, the company behind both Planet PDF and leading Acrobat plug-in developer, ARTS PDF, has released version 7.25 of its stand-alone PDF Library. Quick PDF Library 7.25 boasts a number of new features and improvements, including significant enhancements to the rendering engine that improve its handling of malformed PDF files.

Qoppa Software updates Java PDF Components

Dan Shea — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Qoppa Software has updated its PDF libraries and components. Collectively, these offerings allow software developers to build PDF-related features into their web- and Java-based applications, including PDF viewing, printing, signing, form-filling, markup and manipulation.

PDFTron updates PDFNet SDK, adds redaction

Dan Shea — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

PDFTron Systems has released an update to its flagship PDF development component for PDF creation, content extraction, editing, viewing, printing and document conversion. The latest version, PDFNet SDK 5.6, features a brand-new module that adds support for PDF redaction.

TallComponents releases .NET-based web-to-PDF converter

Dan Shea — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

TallComponents has announced that its new .NET component for converting web content (i.e., HTML) into PDF has finally left the beta phase and been released as WebToPDF.NET 2.0.

Debenu releases Quick PDF Library 7.24

Dan Shea — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Debenu, the company behind both Planet PDF and leading Acrobat plug-in developer, ARTS PDF, has released version 7.24 of its stand-alone PDF Library. Quick PDF Library 7.24 boasts a number of new features and improvements, including major enhancements to the rendering engine and updates that upgrade the handling of form fields.

EDITORIAL: Should malformed PDF files be automatically repaired?

Rowan Hanna — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

PDF files come in all shapes and sizes. They vary from relatively simple to mind-numbingly complex. PDFs can also differ in their degree of conformance to the PDF specification -- the bad ones are often called malformed PDFs. In this article, Rowan Hanna discusses the pros and cons of Adobe Acrobat automatically repairing these malformed PDF files.

e-iceblue to launch PDF creation component for .NET

Karl De Abrew — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

e-iceblue has announced that it will soon launch Spire.PDF, its PDF creation component for .NET applications. e-iceblue already provides XLS, DOC and Office components for integration with .NET applications.

Aspose.Cells for .NET 5.3.0 released

Dan Shea — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Aspose has announced the latest in a series of updates to its range of .NET components. The most recent update is to Aspose.Cells, a .NET component for spreadsheet reporting that supports formula calculation, pivot tables, VBA, workbook encryption, named ranges, spreadsheet formatting, drawing objects and OLE objects.

PDFs and their content - Part 2

Jim King — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In the final part of this two part series, Jim King, a PDF Architect and Senior Principle Scientist at Adobe, takes a closer look at PDF forms as he discusses the editablility and resuse of content found in PDF files and highlights the fact that despite some people's misperceptions, PDF content is only frozen if you choose it to be.

PDFs and their content - Part 1

Jim King — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In this two part series, Jim King, a PDF Architect and Senior Principle Scientist at Adobe, discusses the editablility and resuse of content found in PDF files and highlights the fact that despite some people's misperceptions, PDF content is only frozen if you choose it to be.

Debenu adds LIB edition of Quick PDF Library

Dan Shea — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Debenu, the company behind Acrobat plug-in developer ARTS PDF, has updated its popular PDF SDK. With version 7.23, Quick PDF Library now includes a LIB edition of the SDK for use with C and C++.

Free eBook for PDF Java Developers

Rowan Hanna — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

IDR Solutions, the company behind the JPedal Java PDF library, has released a free eBook for Java developers who are new to the complex world of PDF development.

activePDF launches activePDF Toolkit 2011

Dan Shea — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

activePDF has released the latest version of its component for the dynamic generation and manipulation of PDF files. activePDF Toolkit 2011 natively supports 64-bit applications, along with introducing a fully managed .NET API and support for AES-128 encryption. Other upgrades include various performance enhancements, improved support for transparent text and images and the inclusion of over 80 additional barcode symbologies.

Debenu releases Quick PDF Library 7.22

Dan Shea — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Debenu, the company behind Acrobat plug-in developer ARTS PDF, has updated its popular PDF SDK.

This Week in PDF: Free PDF library improves text drawing, technology partnership announced

Dan Shea — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen a free PDF library enhance its text drawing features; meanwhile, a 3D technology company and a PLM specialist have inked a partnership deal.

When can a PDF reader claim conformance with the PDF standard?

Olaf Druemmer — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

What exactly is a "conforming PDF reader" and what does it have to do with PDF 2.0? Olaf Druemmer, chairman of the PDF/A Competence Center, explains all in this in-depth article.

DuoDimension Software releases PDF Duo .NET 2.4

Anne Shea — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

DuoDimension has released an update to its PDF Duo software. Users will now be able to convert HTML to PDF with tables, styles, graphs, images, hyperlinks and fonts intact.

Qoppa releases enhanced Java PDF Libraries and Components

Rowan Hanna — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Qoppa Software announced the release of new versions of its Java PDF Libraries and Java PDF Components. The new libraries and components include new PDF features and improved memory management and performance.

WindJack Solutions releases PDF CanOpener 4

Dan Shea — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

WindJack Solutions, Inc has released PDF CanOpener 4.0, its Adobe Acrobat plug-in for in-depth analysis and manipulation of the internal structure of PDF documents. Version 4.0 is compatible with Acrobat 8 & 9+ Professional and Standard on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 (both 32 & 64-bit).

activePDF announces the release of activePDF Architect WBE 2010

Dan Shea — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

activePDF, Inc. a provider of server-based PDF creation, conversion and development tools for Microsoft Windows, has announced the official release of activePDF Architect WBE 2010, an API for constructing PDF documents dynamically.

PDFlib TET 4 product family released

Dan Shea — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

PDFlib has announced the release of the new version of its PDF content extraction engine. The latest edition improves page content analysis, supports right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew, and offers advanced Unicode post-processing controls.

Datalogics partners with Appligent Document Solutions, releases Appligent PDF Forms API

Anne Shea — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Datalogics, Inc. and Appligent Document Solutions (ADS) have announced the release of the Appligent PDF Forms API through a technology partnership between the two companies.