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Adobe has posted a new accessibility guide for Adobe Acrobat XI. It contains an overview on accessible viewing, guidelines for checking and repairing accessibility, and explains [...]
Free eBook: Creating PDF Forms for Government
At Ted’s Website Ted Padova has published a free eBook “Creating PDF Forms for Government”. Among several other topics the book also contains a whole chapter [...]
Firefox Tips: Print Multiple Tabs or Bookmarks as One PDF Document
To create a single PDF document from multiple web pages is not intuitive for many users. Ghacks offers suggestions, for example, the Firefox add-on Print pages to PDF, and other solutions. [...]
How to Embed 3D Interactive Graphics into PDF Files
AstroBetter.com has an interesting blog entry by Josh Peek, a Hubble Fellow at Columbia University, on creating interactive 3D graphics and embedding them within PDF files. [...]
Tutorial: How Do I Circumvent PDF Editing Security?
“Unlocking” secured PDF documents to convert or edit them is often difficult, but generating an unlocked equivalent file may be much simpler. According to Matthew Nawrocki at TechRepublic, “The grand majority of secured PDFs I have worked with in the past, like the ones from the IEEE consortium, can be unlocked using an incredibly easy ‘print to file’ trick.” [...]
Optimizing PDFs for Search Engines
PDFs, whether whitepapers, case studies, documentation or anything else, are an important traffic driver for your website. HubSpot Blog offers 6 simple tips for optimizing your PDF documents to gain more exposure for your company’s important materials. Wouldn’t you like to learn more about how to ensure web crawlers find your PDF files? [...]
How to Convert PDF Documents to PDF/A-1b
If you would like to convert existing PDF documents to a PDF/A-1b compliant PDF documents, TallComponents is offering sample code on its website to help with the conversion. [...]
Tips to Edit PDF/A Documents
It is possible to edit PDF/A documents by following a few steps; the US Courts have provided a few tips in furtherance of their move to requiring PDF/A for electronically submitted documents. They offer step-by-step guidance, including how to remove PDF/A and disabling PDF/A viewing mode. [...]
Tips to Make a Portable Document Format Archive Using Distiller
The use of PDF/A is on the rise by government, courts, libraries and many, many more organizations around the world. If you’d like to work on your own archive, Dino Londis provides simple, step-by-step instructions for making PDF/A files using Distiller [...]
Law Firms and “Near to PDF/A” Documents
If you work in the legal profession and you’re seeing that the U.S. Courts moving to PDF/A and want to follow the trend, Adobe’s Rick Borstein offers some tips. Borstein says, “I do not advise law firms to use PDF/A all of the time. PDF/A view mode in Acrobat will not allow you to do many of the day to day edits you need. For example, if you want insert pages in a PDF/A document, PDF/A View mode will prevent the change. Instead, I advise creating PDF documents using a PDF Setting which is easy to conform later to PDF/A. ” [...]