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1200 pages of specification, referencing about fifty other documents. Not complete, not even self-consistent, but essential.<\/p>\n
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One of O’Reilly’s Hacks series – a little book about generating, manipulating, annotating, and consuming PDF information. Lots of stuff which doesn’t need Acrobat, including free resources.<\/p>\n
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All too rare these days, a book which pulls together a whole field, from detailed chapters of explanatory prose and historical information, right down to Type 1 and Truetype font formats in detail, and a few chapters on TeX fonts, too.<\/p>\n
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Twelve years after it’s latest edition, and almost twenty since it’s first, still essential reference material.<\/p>\n
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Pretty much the only sensible source for information on CCITT fax encodings, which PDF uses for one bit-per-pixel bitmaps. The standards documents are virtually impenetrable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1200 pages of specification, referencing about fifty other documents. Not complete, not even self-consistent, but essential. One of O’Reilly’s Hacks series – a little book about generating, manipulating, annotating, and consuming PDF information. Lots of stuff which doesn’t need Acrobat, … Continue reading