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1 online resource (xi, 121 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: A Little History -- Page Description Languages -- Development of PDF -- Some Advantages of PDF -- ISO Standardization -- Specialized Kinds of PDF -- Version Summary -- What's in a PDF? -- Text and Fonts -- Vector Images -- Raster Images -- Color Spaces -- Metadata -- Navigation -- Optional Content -- Multimedia -- Interactive Forms -- Logical Structure and Reflow -- Security -- Compression -- Who Uses PDF? -- The Printing Industry -- Ebooks and Publishing -- PDF Forms -- Document Archiving -- As a File Format -- Useful Free Software -- Basic PDF Syntax -- Document Content -- Page Content -- File Structure -- Document Structure -- Building the Elements -- File Header -- Main Objects -- Graphical Content -- Catalog, Cross-Reference Table, and Trailer -- Putting it Together -- Remarks -- File Layout -- Header -- Body -- Cross-Reference Table -- Trailer -- Lexical Conventions -- Objects -- Integers and Real Numbers -- Strings -- Names |
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Note continued: Boolean Values -- Arrays -- Dictionaries -- Indirect References -- Streams and Filters -- Incremental Update -- Object and Cross-Reference Streams -- Linearized PDF -- How a PDF File is Read -- How a PDF File is Written -- Trailer Dictionary -- Document Information Dictionary -- Document Catalog -- Pages and Page Trees -- Text Strings -- Dates -- Putting it Together -- Looking at Content Streams -- Operators and Graphics State -- Building and Painting Paths -- Bézier Curves -- Filled Shapes and Winding Rules -- Colors and Color Spaces -- Transformations -- Clipping -- Transparency -- Shadings and Patterns -- Form XObjects -- Image XObjects -- Text and Fonts in PDF -- Text State -- Printing Text -- Text Sections -- Text Space and Text Positioning -- Showing Text -- Defining and Embedding Fonts -- Font Types in PDF -- Type 1 Fonts -- Font Encodings -- Embedding a Font -- Extracting Text from a Document -- Resources -- Bookmarks and Destinations |
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Note continued: Destinations -- The Document Outline (Bookmarks) -- XML Metadata -- Annotations and Hyperlinks -- File Attachments -- Introduction -- The Encryption Dictionary -- Reading Encrypted Documents -- Writing Encrypted Documents -- Editing Encrypted Documents -- Command Line Syntax -- Merging Documents -- What Happens when Files are Merged -- Splitting Documents -- What Happens when Files are Split -- Stamps and Watermarks -- How a Stamp is Added -- Extracting and Setting Metadata -- File Attachments -- Encryption and Decryption -- Decrypting Input Files -- Encrypting the Output -- Compression -- PDF Viewers -- Adobe Reader -- Preview -- Xpdf -- GSview -- Software Libraries -- iText for Java and C# -- TCPDF for PHP -- Processing PDF with Perl -- PDF on Mac OS X -- Converting Formats -- PDF to PostScript and Back Again -- Rasterizing PDF to an Image -- Printing Files to PDF -- PDF Editors -- Adobe Acrobat -- Editing with Preview on Mac OS X |
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Note continued: PDF and Graphics Documentation -- ISO 32000 and the PDF File Format -- PDF Hacks -- Related Topics -- Forums and Discussion. |
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Adobe Acrobat.
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Adobe Acrobat. |
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Adobe Acrobat |
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PDF (Computer file format)
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Portable document software.
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File conversion (Computer science)
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PDF (Format de fichier) |
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Logiciels de production de documents portables. |
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Fichiers (Informatique) -- Conversion. |
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PDF. |
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File conversion (Computer science) |
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PDF (Computer file format) |
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Portable document software |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Whitington, John. PDF explained. Beijing ; Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly Media, ©2012 9781449310028 (OCoLC)758392446 |
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(pbk.) |
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