PDFTron Blog

High Quality EPUB / HTML From PDF

Want to create high quality, fixed layout EPUBs from a PDF? Or simply want to show a PDF file in the browser, taking full advantage of the power of HTML and the browser? Or maybe you just want a simple way…

Nov 15 2013

Working with PDF RichMedia Annotations

RichMedia annotations can be used to embed videos and sound files in PDF documents. When opened in a compliant reader, the user can play them back directly as part of the page content, usually by just…

Sept 11 2013

All About PDF/A

What is PDF/A? PDF/A (as in Archive) is a special variant of PDF that has been designed specifically for long term document preservation. Initially released in 2005 and based on PDF 1.4, the specification…

Sept 5 2013

PDFTron Presenting at the Technical Conference North America 2013

PDFTron Systems Inc. will deliver a presentation on "PDF on the Web & Mobile Devices" on the first day of the conference. For more detail, click to see the complete conference program.

Aug 14 2013

How To Integrate a PDF Viewer into HTML5 Apps

HTML5 apps offer many advantages over native ones. Web apps are: Naturally cross-platform: develop once, run on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and everything else. Easy to update the app for everyone…

Aug 8 2013

Creating Thumbnails of PDF Pages

A common question we receive from our customers is how do I create thumbnails of a PDF document? The best class to use for this is PDFDraw, which rasterizes* PDF pages one at a time, and provides methods…

Jul 20 2013

Document Collaboration With PDFNet

Introduction PDFNet makes sharing annotations easy by offering an simple way to import and export annotations. The annotations are saved in a standardized XML format, XFDF. This makes the annotations easy…

Jul 19 2013

PDFTron to Present at PDF Association’s Technical Conference 2013

PDFTron will be sending representatives to the PDF Association’s Technical Conference North America 2013 in Seattle from August 14-15. The conference will be a gathering of PDF industry professionals with…

Jul 19 2013