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Proview PDF Editor 1.5 Upgrade – What’s New?

Proview 1.5 adds significant new features, whilst improving interactivity; functionality which required dialog boxes is now live and interactive. Adding text is now completely interactive with the new text inspector Merge and reorder pages within and between documents by drag … Continue reading

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PDF Explained, now available from O’Reilly

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 … Continue reading

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PDF Command Line Tools 1.6

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 … Continue reading

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CPDFTK: Supported, Faster PDFTK

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 … Continue reading

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Commercial, Supported, Faster PDFtk – Beta Testers Wanted

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 … Continue reading

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Proview PDF Editor 1.2 Released

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 … Continue reading

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Proview 1.2 – Coming Soon

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 … Continue reading

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Removing the Last Page from a PDF

A customer recently asked how to do this. The Coherent PDF Tools page specification doesn’t directly allow it, but we can do it indirectly: Reverse the document’s pages using the ‘reverse’ page specification Use the page specification ‘2-end’ to remove … Continue reading

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Proview PDF Editor on MacPromo Extended Discount

You can get the Proview PDF Editor at 25% off for the next 16 days at mupromo.com. We’ve started work on the next release of Proview with an emphasis on making the existing functionality easier to use (visual selection for … Continue reading

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GraphPDF: A PDF Version of Ocaml’s Graphics Module

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 … Continue reading

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