http://coherentpdf.com/blog Ocaml and PDF and suchlike Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:53:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our new book about PDF has just been published. You can find it at O'Reilly's own site in printed and ebook form, or from Amazon and other booksellers. Here's the publisher's description: At last, here’s an approachable introduction to the widely used Portable Document Format. PDFs are everywhere, both online and in ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=54 The latest version of our command line tools for processing PDF files has just been released. New Feature Highlights: Speed improvements on large, complex files Many robustness improvements, deals with more malformed files Detect low resolution images and missing fonts Add text relative to cropbox, add diagonal text Better support for non-ASCII character sets Copy boxes (e.g ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=53 Coherent Graphics Ltd is pleased to introduce a commercial, supported, faster pdf command line tool with the same interface as the popular open source PDFTK tool. Download the demo here. Features: Merge PDFs Split into mutiple pages Rotate pages Decrypt and Encrypt Documents Apply background watermarks and foreground stamps List and update Metadata Attach files to the document or ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=52 We're writing a front end for our PDF tools with the same command line interface as pdftk, so that it can be used as a drop-in replacement for pdftk for people who can't compile pdftk on their system and don't want to change to our normal command line system cpdf, ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=51 The new version of the Proview PDF Editor for Mac OS X is now available for download. The update is free for existing users - your license key will still work - just download and install from the website. New features include Visual Crop and the setting of crop and trim ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=49 A new version of our PDF Editor for the Mac will be launched next week. New features include Visual Crop and the setting of crop and trim boxes on individual pages. It's also about twice as fast as before. It's not too late to join the beta program - just sign ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=48 I've written a version of Ocaml's Graphics module which outputs PDF directly, using the CamlPDF library - its only dependency. It's based on the approach of Pierre Weis' GraphPS program. It has the same API as Ocaml's module - just have your build process find the GraphPDF files before it finds ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=45 I'm pleased to announce the CamlPDF 0.5 release, which includes a couple of new modules (Pdfdate for date manipulation, Pdfannot for annotations and Pdfmarks for bookmarks). Almost every other module has been improved in some way. Download it here: http://www.coherentpdf.com/ocaml-libraries.html More importantly, I've finally found time to write a short introduction to ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=44 Our new PDF Editor for the mac is out - get it here. Merge, split and rearrange files Edit and manage bookmarks Scale, rotate and crop pages Add text, page numbers and dates and stamp watermarks Edit document metadata Manage PDF Attachments Technical note: Written in OCaml and Objective C with Cocoa. Thanks to all the beta testers ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=40 After some unexpectedly intricate work involving encryption, we're almost ready for the closed Beta Test of our new PDF editor for OS X, written in OCaml. Anyone wishing to join the test should email us via the form on the front page at http://www.coherentpdf.com/ http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=38