In the concept of omni channel marketing, print is one channel amongst others in customer communication. Individualized print requires not only high speed printing machines – it also means that … Read more
In Summer 2020 the LaTeX Project Team announced the start of a multi-year project [1, 2] to produce tagged and accessible PDF from existing LaTeX sources with no or only … Read more
We all know PDF from daily life. If you were to ask a room full of people whether they’ve come into contact with a PDF document, all would raise their … Read more
HexaPDF (https://hexapdf.gettalong.org) is a PDF library written in Ruby. It aims to provide the full spectrum of PDF functionality with the exception of rendering. This presentation focuses on how HexaPDF … Read more
One criticism that is commonly levelled at PDF is that when looking at a PDF document, the user generally has no easy way of knowing whether the document they’re looking … Read more
There are many ways and tools to make a PDF. However, sometimes the resulting document may take up significantly more disk space than you would expect based on its content. … Read more
PDF is one of the most used document formats in the world! This is a fact we should all be proud of. But the downside of this is that PDF … Read more
A staple in the toolbox of the Software Engineer is a solid test suite. Unit tests, Integration tests, and System tests are just a selection out of the vocabulary used … Read more
As one of the most common data-representation formats, the table has taken a significant place in documents because of its capability of representing the wealth of information. However, in reality, … Read more
The specifications of the Ghent Workgroup – built on top of the ISO PDF/X standards – are followed across the world and are built into a lot of major graphics … Read more
Assumed to be secure for 15 years, our talk reveals what could go wrong while a PDF document is being verified. We elaborated novel attacks leading to critical vulnerabilities in … Read more
This presentation is primarily aimed at developers who are designing and implementing digital document workflows requiring trusted signature models. Electronic signatures are an essential part of digital transformation, and many … Read more
Digital signatures have been an integral part of the PDF specification since version PDF 1.3. No other document format has such a deep integration of signatures. Well over 90 percent … Read more
Join CEO Duff Johnson and CTO Peter Wyatt as they discuss current and future PDF Association initiatives. Intended primarily for members, this session is also open to non-members.
PDFs in the wild offer a bewildering amount of variation in syntax, features and structure. For those building parsers or evaluating parsers, it is critical to have a broad coverage … Read more