PDF Reference: Adobe Portable Document Format Version 1.4Adobe Acrobat PDF is the #1 solution for cross-platform exchange of formatted files -- and with Acrobat 5.0/PDF 1.4, PDF becomes even more powerful. Reflecting Adobe's latest enhancements, The PDF Reference, Third Edition is the definitive technical guide to PDF 1.4. Adobe engineers introduce every key aspect of the PDF format, including the relationship of PDF to PostScript; the Adobe imaging model; file compression; font handling; and PDF architecture. The book covers all four components of a PDF file: objects, file structure, document structure, and page description, and contains practical recommendations for optimizing PDF files. It also introduces Tagged PDF, which allows reliable recovery of text, graphics, and images in PDF documents, supports reliable search and indexing, and enables conversion to RTF, HTML, or even speech. Other key topics include: advanced JBIG2 image compression support; improvements to bookmarking and annotations; new trigger events; forms enhancements; new metadata architecture; and Referenced PDF, which allows PDF documents to reference each others' content. This book is essential for any developer writing programs that read or generate PDF files, and for any support professional or advanced user working with PDF in business, prepress, graphic design, workflow, or other environments. The CD contains the entire text of the book in PDF. |
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Acrobat Distiller Additional entries specific Adobe Acrobat Adobe imaging model algorithm annotation Appendix H array ASCII base-85 encoding ASCII characters ASCII85Decode backslash binary data byte boundary carriage return CCITT CHAPTER 3 Syntax character set color component compression method content stream cross-reference table DCTDecode decoded data DecodeParms decoding filter Default value digits document structure elements encoded data encrypted end-of-line Entries common example File Structure Flate glyph graphics objects header hexadecimal image data implementation limit implementation note Incremental Updates indirect object input JBIG2 Lexical Conventions line feed literal string LZW encoding LZWDecode and FlateDecode name object null object object number optional parameters page description language parameter dictionary PDF document PDF file contains PDF viewer application pixels Portable Document Format PostScript PostScript language predictor function represent representation sampled images scan line SECTION 3.3 standard stream dictionary stream object tion Type 1 Font white-space characters