OpenID6 items tagged “pdf”
PDFMiner. Useful looking PDF parsing library in Python—can produce an XML representation of the text and style information in a PDF document. 
3rd August 2008, 3:29 pm
Scaling your website with the Perlbal web server (PDF) (via) Perlbal documentation is pretty thin on the ground; this is a really useful introduction from Frank Wiles. 
17th June 2008, 10:39 pm
OSM Super-Strength Export. Awesome new feature on OpenStreetMap: you can browse to anywhere on the map, then hit “export” and download a rendered bitmap or vector (PDF and SVG) image of the currently displayed map—and because it’s OSM there’s no watermark and a very liberal usage license. 22nd April 2008, 9:56 am
Restructured Text to Anything. Slick set of online tools for converting Restructured Text (one of the more mature wiki-style markup languages) to HTML or PDF. Includes a nice looking API. Powered by Django. 
13th September 2007, 3:54 pm
PDF Shrink. $35 OS X app that crunches down the size of PDF files—useful if you often embed photos in your presentations. 28th May 2007, 2:21 pm
The Adobe PDF XSS Vulnerability. If you host a PDF file anywhere on your site, you’re vulnerable to an XSS attack due to a bug in Acrobat Reader versions below 8. The fix is to serve PDFs as application/octet-stream to avoid them being displayed inline. 11th January 2007, 4:23 pm
