Ebook: PDF Explained

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 te.;Table of Contents; Preface; Who Should Read This Book; Organization of Contents; Content Updates; May 22, 2012; Acknowledgments; Conventions Used in This Book; Obtaining Code Examples; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Chapter 1. Introduction; A Little History; Page Description Languages; Other page description languages; Development of PDF; Some Advantages of PDF; Random access and linearization; Stream creation and incremental update; Embedded fonts; Searchable text; ISO Standardization; Specialized Kinds of PDF; PDF/A; PDF/X; Version Summary; What's in a PDF?