If you read yesterday’s article a life without flash you already know where this article is heading. The attacks using pdf documents have increased as have the vulnerabilities that have been found in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, the two most popular software programs ti view pdf documents. Recently security vulnerabilities have also been found [...]

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PDF documents are usually not used in presentations. It does happen often however that presentations are shared as pdf documents instead of the original document format which is usually created by Microsoft PowerPoint document. Impressive is a presentation software that provides the same presentation techniques that are known from PowerPoint with the difference that it [...]

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Each pdf document contains metadata that lists the document title, document author, keyword, software the document has been created with or the date of the creation among other things. These information are usually generated automatically in the pdf editor that was used to create or modify the pdf document. These pdf editors usually contain the [...]

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PDF Creator is an Open Source software program to create pdf documents by adding itself as a virtual printer that can be used to send and convert documents into the pdf format. The virtual printer has the advantage that PDF Creator can be used by virtually any application that can access printers in the Windows [...]

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Like Microsoft Office documents Adobe PDF documents contain meta information that can sometimes reveal information that the author does not want to be accessible by readers. Meta information such as the author name, the application the PDF document was created with or PDF file creation dates are easily accessible by anyone analyzing the document closely. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows