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Still hungry for more?

Karl De Abrew — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:28:16 +0000

You love PDF — but you’re hankering for even more info about what’s going on in the digital documents world? Maybe you’re the CPO of your company (Chief PDF Officer) and need to be certain that XPS won’t be coming up to bite you in the behind? Well, perhaps you should head on down to our other blog, Digital Documents. We cover other non-PDF material like eBooks, gadgets, xps, the so-called paperless office and much, much more. See you there!

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PDF links on web pages

Rowan Hanna — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:46:10 +0000

What is the best practice for including PDF links on your website? It’s simple, make sure that the user knows what they are getting themselves into. I can’t count the number of times that I’ve clicked on a web link, only to discover that the link goes to a PDF that’s 20MB, and on a low-speed Internet connection (read: broadband in Australia), that can be quite painful. You soon find yourself reaching for the Ctrl+Alt+Del keys because your web browser has been temporarily hijacked [and perhaps not so "temporarily" if you're on dial-up].

So how can you make your PDF links more user friendly? Well if you include these two critical bits of information, file type and file size, and then you are well on your way. Some examples:

Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Guide [PDF: 2.25MB]
PDF Reference, Sixth Edition, version 1.7 (PDF, 31.0M)

The exact formatting doesn’t really matter, the important thing is that you let your visitors know that they are about to load a PDF document that is pretty small or bloody huge into their web browser.

If you wanted to take it a step further you could provide the user with information on how they could download the PDF to their desktop instead of viewing it in their web browser.

Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Guide [PDF: 2.25MB]
To view this file in your browser left-click on the link, or to download this file to your desktop, right-click on the link and select Save Link As in Firefox or Save Target As in Internet Explorer.

It’s as simple as that. Visitors to your site will thank you.

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Leading electronic document format to be facilitated ISO Standard Process by AIIM

Karl De Abrew — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:36:21 +0000

San Jose, California – Adobe Systems (Nasdaq:ADBE) today revealed its intention of releasing the full Portable Document Format (PDF) specification to AIIM, an enterprise content management association, for publication by International Organization for Standards (ISO).

PDF has become a global standard for providing secured and dependable information exchange since the publication of the complete PDF specification in 1993. Today both the public and private sector rely on PDF for exchanging volumes of electronic records over the Internet and other networks and in some cases preserving information for generations.

“The announcement made today marks a logical step to evolve PDF from a de-facto standard to a formal, de-jure standard” said Kevin Lynch, Senior Vice President and Chief Software Architect at Adobe Systems. He also emphasized that this full release of specifications for ISO standards shows their commitment toward openness.

Adobe will be releasing the full PDF specifications as described in the Reference manual which is available at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html to AIIM for the purpose of submitting to ISO. The basic work for the joint committee formed under AIIM is to identify issues that needs attention, as well proposing solutions, and developing a draft document which will be presented to the Joint Working Group of ISO for the development and approval as an international standard.

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