PDF explained / John Whitington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitington, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adobe Acrobat.

PDF (Computer file format).

Portable document software.

Text processing (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly Media, [2012]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

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?

Text and FontsVector 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; Chapter 2. Building a Simple PDF; 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

Chapter 3. File StructureFile Layout; Header; Body; Cross-Reference Table; Trailer; Lexical Conventions; Objects; Integers and Real Numbers; Strings; Hexadecimal strings; Names; 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; Chapter 4. Document Structure; Trailer Dictionary; Document Information Dictionary; Document Catalog; Pages and Page Trees; Text Strings; Dates; Putting it Together; Chapter 5. Graphics; Looking at Content Streams

Operators and Graphics StateBuilding and Painting Paths; Bézier Curves; Drawing circles with Bézier curves; Filled Shapes and Winding Rules; Colors and Color Spaces; Transformations; Clipping; Transparency; Shadings and Patterns; Form XObjects; Image XObjects; Chapter 6. Text and Fonts; Text and Fonts in PDF; Text State; Printing Text; Text Sections; Text Space and Text Positioning; Showing Text; Character and word spacing; Text transforms; Text rise; Kerning and glyph adjustment; Text rendering modes; Defining and Embedding Fonts; Font Types in PDF; Type 1 Fonts; Font Encodings

Embedding a FontExtracting Text from a Document; Resources; Chapter 7. Document Metadata and Navigation; Bookmarks and Destinations; Destinations; The Document Outline (Bookmarks); Building an example; XML Metadata; Annotations and Hyperlinks; File Attachments; Chapter 8. Encrypted Documents; Introduction; The Encryption Dictionary; Reading Encrypted Documents; Writing Encrypted Documents; Editing Encrypted Documents; Chapter 9. Working with Pdftk; Command Line Syntax; Merging Documents; What Happens when Files are Merged; Splitting Documents; What Happens when Files are Split

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Notes:

"The ISO standard for document exchange"--Cover.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781449321604

1449321607

9781449321611

1449321615

OCLC:

768082315