Many users who want to extract non-textual data from a pdf document help themselves by creating a screenshot of that data to embed it into their documents. While most pdf readers are nowadays capable of copying text from pdf documents they usually do lack the ability to copy more complex data like tables or drawings [...]
PDF Presentation Software Impressive
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 can [...]
Edit PDF Properties
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 means [...]
Wikipedia gets books and gets printed
Last year, the German Wikipedia was printed. Now, many Wikipedias worldwide – including the English Wikipedia – has given people the opportunity to compile a book of Wikipedia articles which can then be professionally printed or exported as a PDF or OpenDocument.
Wikipedia has enabled the ‘Book’ extension to MediaWiki, the content management system it [...]
Unofficial Adobe Reader Patch Released
You might have read about a new vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and previous versions that is affecting all platforms and rated critical. The vulnerability can be used to crash an application and allow an attacker to take control of the computer system. Adobe announced plans to release the official patch for all affected products [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Feb 12th, 2009
- Comments: 4
Stellar PDF Creation with Scribus
Professional PDF documents can make or break a marketing campaign, or advertising promotion, or even seal the deal with a client. For most people this job is done with either QuarkXPress or Adobe Reader. Both outstanding tools with a high price. Did you know, however, there was an open source tool that can do the [...]
PDF Creator
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 [...]
