Developing with PDF: Dive Into the Portable Document Format

by Leonard Rosenthol

Overview

PDF is becoming the standard for digital documents worldwide, but it’s not easy to learn on your own. With capabilities that let you use a variety of images and text, embed audio and video, and provide links and navigation, there’s a lot to explore. This practical guide helps you understand how to work with PDF to construct your own documents, troubleshoot problems, and even build your own tools.

You’ll also find best practices for producing, manipulating, and consuming PDF documents. In addition, this highly approachable reference will help you navigate the official (and complex) ISO documentation.

• Learn how to combine PDF objects into a cohesive whole
• Use PDF’s imaging model to create vector and raster graphics
• Integrate text, and become familiar with fonts and glyphs
• Provide navigation within and between documents
• Use annotations to overlay or incorporate additional content
• Build interactive forms with the Widget annotation
• Embed related files such as multimedia, 3D content, and XML files
• Use optional content to enable non-printing graphics
• Tag content with HTML-like structures, including paragraphs and tables

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449327910
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/25/2013
Pages:	215
Sales rank:	762,997
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Leonard Rosenthol is a Principal Scientist and PDF Architect for Adobe Systems, having been involved with PDF technology for more than 15 years. He represents Adobe on various international standards bodies including the ISO (where he is the Project Editor for PDF/A and PDF/E), W3C and ETSI/ESI (where he authored the PDF Electronic Signature standard, PAdES). Prior to re-joining Adobe in 2006, Leonard worked as the Director of Software Development for Appligent, and the Chief Innovation Officer for Apago, while also running the successful consulting business of PDF Sages. Before becoming involved in PDF, Leonard was the Director of Advanced Technology for Aladdin Systems and responsible for the development of the StuffIt line of products.

Table of Contents

Preface; Who Should Read This Book; Organization of Content; Conventions Used in This Book; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: PDF Syntax; 1.1 PDF Objects; 1.2 File Structure; 1.3 Document Structure; 1.4 What’s Next; Chapter 2: PDF Imaging Model; 2.1 Content Streams; 2.2 The Painter’s Model; 2.3 Drawing Paths; 2.4 Transformations; 2.5 Basic Color; 2.6 Marked Content Operators; 2.7 Resources; 2.8 External Graphic State; 2.9 Basic Transparency; 2.10 What’s Next; Chapter 3: Images; 3.1 Raster Images; 3.2 JPEG Images; 3.3 Transparency and Images; 3.4 Vector Images; 3.5 What’s Next; Chapter 4: Text; 4.1 Fonts; 4.2 Text State; 4.3 Drawing Text; 4.4 Positioning Text; 4.5 What’s Next; Chapter 5: Navigation; 5.1 Destinations; 5.2 Actions; 5.3 Bookmarks or Outlines; 5.4 What’s Next; Chapter 6: Annotations; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Appearance Streams; 6.3 Markup Annotations; 6.4 Non-Markup Annotations; 6.5 What’s Next; Chapter 7: AcroForms; 7.1 The Interactive Form Dictionary; 7.2 The Field Dictionary; 7.3 Field Classes; 7.4 Form Actions; 7.5 What’s Next; Chapter 8: Embedded Files; 8.1 File Specifications; 8.2 Ways to Embed Files; 8.3 Collections; 8.4 GoToE Actions; 8.5 What’s Next; Chapter 9: Multimedia and 3D; 9.1 Simple Media; 9.2 Multimedia; 9.3 3D; 9.4 What’s Next; Chapter 10: Optional Content; 10.1 Optional Content Groups; 10.2 Optional Content Membership; 10.3 Optional Content Configuration; 10.4 Optional Content Properties; 10.5 Marking Content as Optional; 10.6 What’s Next; Chapter 11: Tagging and Structure; 11.1 Structured PDF; 11.2 Tagged PDFs; 11.3 What’s Next; Chapter 12: Metadata; 12.1 The Document Information Dictionary; 12.2 Metadata Streams; 12.3 What’s Next; Chapter 13: PDF Standards; 13.1 PDF (ISO 32000); 13.2 PDF/X (ISO 15930); 13.3 PDF/A (ISO 19005); 13.4 PDF/E (ISO 24517); 13.5 PDF/VT (ISO 16612-2); 13.6 PDF/UA (ISO 14289); 13.7 Other PDF-Related Standards; Colophon;