eXtensible Metadata Platform is an XML grammar for representing document metadata. XMP is a subset of Resource Description Format (RDF).
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What You Don’t Know about PDF Can Hurt You
Perhaps the single most common myth about PDF files is the idea that they are “unchangeable”. WRONG. It’s the single most common misunderstanding about the most common of file-formats. In reality, PDF files are easy to change. They are also easy to annotate with comments, encrypt, digitally sign, make interactive, communicate with servers and much […]
View PostLet’s Talk About FDF
FDF has been part of PDF almost since very early days. Adobe didn’t exactly have a long track record as an interactive forms company at the time, but in FDF, they succeeded in creating one of the most powerful and flexible forms solutions ever devised. As of last summer, FDF is part of ISO 32000, […]
View PostLast Week’s “Reader/XSS Scare” Kerfuffle
Last week, loud noises began emanating from a variety of online security experts regarding a vulnerability in Adobe’s Reader browser plugin that can allow malicious code to execute on a user’s system via cross-site-scripting (XSS). The headlines were choice: “Adobe bug may be worst flaw of 2007”, and “Adobe Flaw Means Trusted PDFs May Be […]
View PostWelcome to the PDF Perspective
I’ve been working with PDF for more than ten years on what I’ve often had occasion to think of as rather the sharper end of the stick. Since Acrobat 2.01, each time Adobe Systems or 3rd party developers came out with new PDF software, I was there to try to find a way to put […]
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