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When it comes to documentation and user’s guides, nothing beats the ease of PDF. As more and more companies take the cost-cutting measure of no longer offering paper manuals, the decision of alternative formats becomes quite important. Even non-savvy users can easily locate a PDF and print the entire document or select pages without frustration, unlike similar materials in HTML. The Ledger’s Lonnie Brown takes a look at this issue when a friend’s printer manufacturer fails to offer PDFs of documentation. [...]
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? [...]
Fundraiser – PAC 2 with integrated PDF/UA check
Swiss «Access for all» fundraising campaign already collected almost 50% of the amount needed to develop a PDF/UA enabled version 2.0 of the free PAC PDF Accessibility Checker tool. [...]
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.” [...]
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. [...]
Webinar: Creating Accessible PDF Presentations from PowerPoint
Ohio State University’s Web Accessibility Center offers a webinar with tips for creating accessible PDF presentations from PowerPoint files. Ken Petri guides users through authoring content in PowerPoint so that those with vision and other disabilities are able to easily review presentations. His best practices will help ensure that PowerPoint presentations converted to PDF documents will be usable by everyone. [...]
Adobe Restructures, Increases Focus on Digital Media and Marketing Products
Adobe Systems will layoff 750 employees, about 8 percent of its workforce, in North America and Europe as part of a restructuring plan designed to accelerate growth. The company says it wants to “grow its analytics and reporting business, especially on mobile devices and social networks,” according to an article from PC World. “In order to drive increased Digital Marketing bookings, which are recognized as recurring revenue, the company will reduce its investment, and expected license revenue, in certain enterprise solution product lines.” Specifics on which enterprise products would be affected, or how they would be affected, have not been released yet. [...]