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Product updates
Streamline Document Management: Combine Documents Multiple Sources into a Single, Archive-Ready PDF Portfolio using the PDF Tools Conversion Service Dossier Workflow
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Can I trust PDF validation software?
If I use validation software from different manufacturers I sometimes get different results. Why can this happen? Does it mean that I can't trust the software? What can I do about it? I hear these and more questions very ...
Product updates
New workflow in Conversion Service: Invoice PDF/A-3
As announced in the May issue, we present the “Invoice” workflow of our 4-Heights® Conversion Service in more detail today.
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The discipline of converting PDF to PDF/A
We all know that the conversion one file format to another is not as easy as one might wish for and can lead to unpleasant surprises. However, it is hardly known that this is the case for the conversion from PDF to PDF/A ...
Product updates
New workflow in Conversion Service: Archive PDF/A-3
Like the existing and more restricted "Archive PDF/A-2" workflow, the "Archive PDF/A-3" workflow is specially designed to prepare documents for archiving.
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What is PDF compression and optimization?
Most people agree that PDF compression and optimization have something to do with reducing file size. Sometimes it's about faster rendering. Anyway, compression and optimization is a wide topic and it's certainly worth a ...
Announcements
Maximize Efficiency with Advanced Document Conversion: Streamline Your Enterprise Workflow
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Splitting and merging pages of PDF documents
Single out pages from a number of input documents and re-arrange them in a set of output documents belongs to the daily routine in a document assembly application. At first glance, this seems to be a clear and understand ...
Product updates
Pdftools SDKs and Shell components development
We have also been diligently developing our current product line. This year with a special focus on simplifying integration and supporting new standards. The following innovations are particularly noteworthy.
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Why is the extraction of text from a PDF document such a hassle
When I use a text editing tool such as Microsoft Word then it is quite natural that I can select a portion of text and copy it to the clipboard and paste it in to a window of any other tool. Not so with PDF. At least not ...
Product updates
PDF Toolbox SDK
As we approach the beginning of the second quarter of 2021, we would like to share our most recent product update, concerning PDF manipulation for mass-editing and mass-creation of PDF/A-compliant documents. One of our c ...
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Embedding fonts in PDF
I collect bad PDFs since the Reference Manual 1.0 was published in 1993 and today I have recourse to a data base of more than 100'000 real world PDF files with all kinds of faults in them. The vast majority of problems, ...