PDF Explained

The ISO Standard for Document Exchange

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Paperback, 121 blz. | Engels
O'Reilly | 1e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9781449310028
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Hoofdrubriek : Computer en informatica
O'Reilly 1e druk, 2012 9781449310028
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Samenvatting

At last, here's an approachable introduction to the widely used Portable Document Format. PDFs are everywhere, both online and in printed form, but few people take advantage of the useful features or grasp the nuances of this format.

This concise book provides a hands-on tour of the world's leading page-description language for programmers, power users, and professionals in the search, electronic publishing, and printing industries. Illustrated with lots of examples, this book is the documentation you need to fully understand PDF.

- Build a simple PDF file from scratch in a text editor
- Learn the layout and content of a PDF file, as well as the syntax of its objects
- Examine the logical structure of PDF objects, and learn how pages and their resources are arranged into a document
- Create vector graphics and raster images in PDF, and deal with transparency, color spaces, and patterns
- Explore PDF operators for building and showing text strings
- Get up to speed on bookmarks, metadata, hyperlinks, annotations, and file attachments
- Learn how encryption and document permissions work in PDF
- Use the pdftk program to process PDF files from the command line

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ISBN13:9781449310028
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:121
Uitgever:O'Reilly
Druk:1
Verschijningsdatum:31-1-2012

Over John Whitington

John Whitington is the author of one of the few complete PDF implementations, CamlPDF, which implements the PDF file format from the bit level up. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he founded Coherent Graphics Ltd, developers of command line PDF tools for Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix, and the Proview PDF Editor for Mac OS X.

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Preface

1. Introduction
-A Little History
-What's in a PDF?
-Who Uses PDF?
-Useful Free Software

2. Building a Simple PDF
-Basic PDF Syntax
-Document Structure
-Building the Elements
-Putting it Together
-Remarks

3. File Structure
-File Layout
-Lexical Conventions
-Objects
-Streams and Filters
-Incremental Update
-Object and Cross-Reference Streams
-Linearized PDF
-How a PDF File is Read
-How a PDF File is Written

4. Document Structure
-Trailer Dictionary
-Document Information Dictionary
-Document Catalog
-Pages and Page Trees
-Text Strings
-Dates
-Putting it Together

5. Graphics
-Looking at Content Streams
-Operators and Graphics State
-Building and Painting Paths
-Colors and Color Spaces
-Transformations
-Clipping
-Transparency
-Shadings and Patterns
-Form XObjects
-Image XObjects

6. Text and Fonts
-Text and Fonts in PDF
-Text State
-Printing Text
-Defining and Embedding Fonts
-Extracting Text from a Document
-Resources

7 Document Metadata and Navigation
-Bookmarks and Destinations
-XML Metadata
-Annotations and Hyperlinks
-File Attachments

8. Encrypted Documents
-Introduction
-The Encryption Dictionary
-Reading Encrypted Documents
-Writing Encrypted Documents
-Editing Encrypted Documents

9. Working with Pdftk
-Command Line Syntax
-Merging Documents
-Splitting Documents
-Stamps and Watermarks
-Extracting and Setting Metadata
-File Attachments
-Encryption and Decryption
-Compression

10. PDF Software and Documentation
-PDF Viewers
-Software Libraries
-Converting Formats
-PDF Editors
-PDF and Graphics Documentation

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