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Importing images into a PDF file – a seemingly trivial task

A picture is worth a thousand words. However, it is certainly necessary to write more than a thousand words about how images should be embedded correctly in a PDF file.

A picture is worth a thousand words. That's why they are fondly embedded in PDF files. One would expect that embedding images in a PDF file is a simple task. Because it seems so easy, there are also many, including free, tools for it. But do these tools do what you expect them to do?

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Pdftools counts more than 5,000 companies and organizations in 70 countries among its customers, making it one of the world’s leading producers of software solutions and developer components for PDF and PDF/A products. The product range support the entire document flow, from raw materials to scanning processes through to signing…

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