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The International Standards Organization has published the Technical Corrigendum 2 for PDF/A-1. The download is free with website registration. [...]
ReadCube PDF Reader Enhances PDF Searches and More
The new PDF reader by ReadCube allows PDFs to be better organized, more searchable and offers the ability to annotate. In a single step, ReadCube allows you to create an article library that is full-text searchable, including highlights and sticky notes. And it simplifies researching by automatically recommending relevant articles every day. [...]
PDF Week Begins
PDF Week, the twice yearly meeting in which members of several PDF ISO committees determine the future of the standards, begins today. PDF, PDF/A, PDF/UA, PDF/E are all on the agenda and more news will be coming soon. [...]
Court Improperly Redacts PDF in Apple Case
For at least the third time this year, poor redaction practices have leaked sensitive information to the public. Apple see itself as the latest victim, this time because a California judge improperly redacted files in Apple’s copyright infringement lawsuit with Samsung. According to Atlantic Wire’s Adam Clark Estes, “U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh … attempted to redact nearly two dozen sentences or short fragments. But because of a formatting characteristic in the prior electronic version, the redacted material can be viewed by copying text from the PDF and pasting it into another document.” [...]
“PDF: A Better Way to Go”, Says Blogger
A blogger at Tech Handbook is calling PDF “A better way to go.” He outlines the numerous benefits of PDF, including preserving document format and ensuring it can be opened by any user regardless of operating system or software, for his user-based audience. We, of course, know the advantages of PDF, but it’s nice to see users spreading the word as well. [...]
Safari Browser Now Displays PDF Within Web Content
Mac and PC users utilizing the Safari web browser can now view PDFs within web content thanks to a patch issued by Apple on Tuesday. The fix also addresses bugs including some relating to memory usage and overall stability. [...]
3D PDF Technology Receives Patent
UK-based Visual Technology Services says it has received a patent for its PDF3D Compression Technology called “Triangle Mesh Compression”.The GB2477368 patent covers “proprietary methods used to compress large terrain grids, typical of digital elevation maps, bathymetric survey data, in a 3D triangle mesh surface packaged within a standard PDF file, such that the resulting document is up to 60% smaller and more efficient to communicate, while enabling the recipient to open and review the 3D model with rotation, pan, zoom, location probe, fly-through interaction.” [...]
Google Analytics Offers PDF Exporting
Google has announced that PDF export functionality will be part of its soon-to-be-released analytics interface. John Rampton at Search Engine Watch reports that other new features will include email scheduling and mobile ad performance metrics in Google Analytics. The new features are expected to roll out over the next couple weeks. [...]
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? [...]
New Trojan Masquerades as PDF
Once again there is a Trojan, software that pretends to be something else that installs a backdoor into a computer system, masquerading as a PDF file. This one poses as a message from the United States Postal Service (USPS), according to Sunbelt/GFI Labs. The company warns that “once downloaded onto a system, there are “a lot of potential actions this malware might do, like downloading other binaries/components onto the infected system, updating a copy of itself, posting information to these sites, or waiting for commands from its controller. As of this writing, the file does not download other binaries or additional component files.” [...]