Portable Document Format (PDF)—Finally, a Universal Document Exchange Technology

Portable Document Format (PDF) Registry

Information Extraction Tools for Portable Document Format

Interest in the new publishing phenomenon known as e-book has grown enormously in last few years. There are now at least 150 companies involved in various ways in the development of e-books. Despite this involvement the spread of e-books has not yet useful in implementation of digital libraries. The use of e-books of PDF format in the implementation of digital library requires a robust informat...

Embedding 3D radiology models in portable document format.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to discuss how to convert cross-sectional images into a 3D model and embed them in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. Four programs are used: OsiriX, MeshLab, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat. Step-by-step instructions are provided. CONCLUSION Embedding 3D radiology models into PDF files is a powerful tool that may be used for clinical, educ...

Security and privacy issues in the Portable Document Format

The Portable Document Format (PDF)was developed by Adobe in the early nineties and today it is the defacto standard for electronic document exchange. It allows reliable reproductions of publishedmaterials on any platform and it is used by many governmental and educational institutions, as well as companies and individuals. PDF documents are also credited with being more secure than other docume...

A Compound Document Format for Handheld Devices

Handheld devices have recently gained access to the Internet. The devices differ a lot from traditional desktop computers what comes to, for instance, browsing the Web. Several parties have defined specifications, which facilitates creating Web documents for handheld devices. In this paper, we have defined document profile, which combines many document formats targeted for handheld devices. The...